A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to conduct an investigation into how CBS News and other media outlets learned of a criminal investigation into the activities of two pro-Israel lobbyists before they were formally charged. In an opinion released Tuesday, US District Judge T.S. Ellis III declined to throw out the evidence against [...]
A lawsuit filed by the United Mine Workers of America , seeking to compel the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to perform periodic checks of "self-contained self-rescuers" oxygen units and lead mandatory emergency training for all mine workers, was dismissed Wednesday. The claim was filed in June in response to Congressional changes to [...]
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled Tuesday that former presidential candidate Ralph Nader and his running mate Peter Miguel Camejo must pay more than $80,000 in expenses for a lawsuit challenging Nader's petition drive and nominating papers to appear on the 2004 Pennsylvania ballot. A group of voters filed a lawsuit challenging the documents, and [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Mark Brown, holder of the Newton D. Baker/Baker and Hostetler Chair at Capital University School of Law, says that forcing unsuccessful 2004 presidential candidate Ralph Nader to pay after-the-fact for a ballot contest instigated against him in Pennsylvania when his campaign was found to have committed no wrongdoing is constitutionally dubious… The [...]
Murphy v. IRS, US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, August 23, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Deliberate destruction or "collateral damage"? Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure, Amnesty International, August 23, 2006 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The Tashkent City Court in Uzbekistan Wednesday ordered the closure of another US nongovernmental organization (NGO) operating in the country, stating the group's failure to provide accurate information about its activities as one of the chief reasons. Crosslink Development International is the most recent activist group forced to close its offices in Uzbekistan as part [...]
US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Wednesday that US Border Patrol officials are now detaining nearly all non-Mexican illegal immigrants caught crossing the US-Mexico border for an average of 21 days before releasing them to their home countries. Fulfilling a promise made by DHS leaders last fall, US officials detained 99 percent of non-Mexican [...]
A High Court judge in London on Wednesday granted requests by Scotland Yard to extend the detentions of 9 of 11 uncharged suspects in custody in connection with an alleged airline bombing plot said to have been foiled by police. Eight suspects had their detentions extended to August 30, the first time a British court [...]
Telecom giant AT&T sued 25 "John Doe" defendants in US federal court on Wednesday, alleging that the defendants had posed as customers to obtain personal customer information for use in domestic and legal disputes. The AT&T complaint alleges that the so-called "data brokers" fraudulently obtained data on about 2,500 customers, and if the lawsuit leads [...]
