Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador , the leftist candidate challenging the results of Mexico's disputed July 2 presidential election , has rejected Monday's ruling by the country's Federal Electoral Tribunal reducing the lead of leader Felipe Calderon by only some 4000 votes after a partial recount. In a speech to supporters in Mexico City late Monday, [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Jim Chen of the University of Minnesota School of Law says that the Hurricane Katrina disaster one year later still challenges us to acknowledge and address America's deep social vulnerability, so exposed in the aftermath of the storm… Hurricane Katrina broke America’s collective heart. No previous natural disaster in the nation’s history [...]
The Prosecutor vs. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, Document Containing the Charges, Article 61(3)(a), International Criminal Court, August 28, 2006 . Read the full text of the indictment . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
League of Women Voters of Florida et al. v. Sue M. Cobb, United States District Court, Southern District of Florida, Judge Patricia Seitz, August 28, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Nova Health Systems et al. v. W.A. Drew Edmundson, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, August 25, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
An Iranian court has sentenced the managing editor of the monthly Aftab, Isa Saharkhiz , to four years in jail and barred him from working in the press for five years after he was convicted of publishing articles against the constitution and offending the state media, according to ISNA , the Iranian student news agency. [...]
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday formally charged Thomas Lubanga , founder of the militant Union of Patriotic Congolese , accusing him of enlisting child soldiers in the violence-plagued Ituri district . Lubanga is the first war crimes suspect to be charged at the ICC since it opened in 2002. Though Human [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday that he will establish two inquiry committees to investigate Israel's conduct during the latest crisis in the Middle East , one to examine "the functioning of the Government, its proceedings and decision making, and anything else it sees fit to examine," and an internal military investigation to "conduct [...]
US District Judge Patricia Seitz of the Southern District of Florida on Monday threw out Florida's Third-Party Registration Law , which had imposed steeply scaled fines on organizations and volunteers who failed to submit voter applications within specified time periods. Seitz ruled that the law "unconstitutionally discriminates in favor of political parties by excluding them [...]
Mexico's Federal Electoral Tribunal on Monday rejected most challenges to last month's disputed presidential election , dismissing the bulk of fraud allegations brought by leftist challenger Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador . Lopez Obrador filed over 200 separate complaints challenging the preliminary vote count which conservative candidate Felipe Calderon won by just 0.6 percent of the [...]
