US District Judge Christopher Boyko ruled Wednesday that an Ohio voting rule requiring naturalized citizens to provide proof of citizenship if challenged by poll workers was unconstitutional. The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio assisted a group of citizens in filing a lawsuit to challenge the law in August. Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell [...]
Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said Thursday that the Australian government plans to appeal a court decision giving Aborigines native title to land in the city of Perth, saying the ruling could prevent non-indigenous people from having access to public parks and beaches in the area. Ruddock said the decision could have implications for several similar [...]
Two US Marines charged with the death of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of murder and kidnapping. Pfc. John Jodka and Cpl. Marshall Magincalda are the first of eight soldiers from the Camp Pendleton military base to be arraigned in the April death of Hashim Ibrahim Awad . The [...]
California v. Dunn, Superior Court of California, October 4, 2006 . Read the full text of the charges . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
ACLU v. NSA, US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, October 4, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Bill Goodman : "The Center for Constitutional Rights is aggressively challenging the appalling Military Commissions Act (MCA) passed by Congress last week. Our allies have already contributed cogent analyses of some of the dangers posed by the MCA: its unprecedented and expansive suspension of habeas corpus, its retroactive amnesty for U.S. military and intelligence officials [...]
Indian police held the alleged "main brain" behind the 2005 Mumbai train bombings in custody Wednesday after he was captured in the Indian city of Belgaum in Karnataka state. Asif Khan Bashir Khan – alias Junaid – is the sixteenth suspect arrested in connection with the July 11 terror attacks that killed nearly 200 people [...]
The Federal Election Commission, has voted to change the way recounts are funded, making them subject to federal election fundraising limits rather than being exempt from those as they have been for nearly 30 years. The new advisory opinion adopted 4-2 comes 5 weeks before the November 7 mid-term elections, in a year fraught with [...]
Former Hewlett-Packard chairman Patricia Dunn and four others were charged in California Wednesday with criminal offenses related to a corporate spy scandal that has shaken Silicon Valley. Along with Dunn, former HP ethics director Kevin Hunsaker and private investigators Ronald DeLia, Joseph DePante and Bryan Wagner were charged with the felonies of using of false [...]
The US Attorney's office in Washington, DC has sent a letter to US House of Representatives counsel Geraldine Gennett asking her to save records from the office of former Congressman Mark Foley , who resigned last week at the outset of an e-mail sex scandal involving congressional pages. A US Department of Justice (DOJ) official [...]
