The heirs of slaves, who filed federal lawsuits against companies that allegedly profited from slavery before the abolition of the practice in the United States, argued Wednesday in front of the US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals that their cases should be heard. US District Judge Charles Norgle dismissed the consolidated cases last year, saying [...]
Michael Paranzino : "North Dakota should bring back the death penalty, and it's sad that it took the brutal murder of a young woman, Dru Sjodin, by a convicted sex offender, to wake up the state's lawmakers. A federal jury in North Dakota has sentenced her killer to death under federal law, despite the state's [...]
Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, California State Assembly, signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, September 27, 2006 . Read the full text of the bill. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
State of Connecticut et al. v. Margaret Spellings, Secretary of Education, United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, September 27, 2006 . Read the full text of the memorandum of decision . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
An Act of Vengeance, B'Tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, September 27, 2006 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The Prosecutor v. Momcilo Krajisnik, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, September 27, 2006 . Read the full text of the judgment . reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
US District Judge Mark Kravitz Wednesday dismissed three of four counts of a lawsuit filed by the state of Connecticut against the US Department of Education claiming that provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act constitute unconstitutional unfunded mandates. Kravitz rejected the counts on jurisdictional grounds, but refused to grant a US motion [...]
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 into law Wednesday, marking the approval of the first US bill designed to restrict greenhouse gas emissions. Among other provisions, the law aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020 and grants new authority to the California Air Resources Board [...]
The US House of Representatives approved its version of the controversial military commissions bill Wednesday by a margin of 253-168 with 160 Democrats voting against the legislation. After passage, Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) combatively commended fellow Republicans for their efforts in pushing the legislation through:House Republicans have worked hard to create a system that will [...]
Former Bosnian Serb parliamentary leader Momcilo Krajisnik was sentenced to 27 years' imprisonment by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday for various war crimes related to his role in atrocities committed against Croats and Muslims during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war. According to the official judgment summary , the ICTY found [...]
