An Israeli military court has authorized the continued detention of Palestinian parliament speaker Aziz Dweik until August 22. Dweik was arrested at his home in Ramallah on August 5 for being a senior leader of Hamas , which Israel contends is a terrorist organization. He was hospitalized last week for chest pains and breathing problems, [...]
US federal prosecutors on Thursday charged former Hollinger CEO Conrad Black with additional counts of tax evasion in connection with the $2.1 billion sale of several hundred Canadian newspapers and alleged abuse of corporate perquisites at Hollinger. After going before a grand jury, prosecutors filed a second superseding indictment in the criminal case to replace [...]
The Court of Appeal division of the Supreme Court of Victoria in Australia on Friday quashed the conviction of Joseph Terrence "Jihad Jack" Thomas , the first Australian jailed under the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism Act 2002 . The court ruled that authorities interviewed Thomas against his will and without access to a [...]
Human Rights Watch on Friday said that "the Iraqi High Tribunal is presently incapable of fairly and effectively trying a genocide case in accordance with international standards and current international criminal law" and called on the tribunal to "improve its practices" during Saddam Hussein's second trial, scheduled to begin Monday . HRW based its statement [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that even in the wake of a federal court injunction, meaningful restrictions on the executive's domestic surveillance program require that both the judiciary and the legislative branches of government assert themselves against presidential overreaching… If the United States is still celebrating [...]
JURIST Special Guest Columnist H.A. Hellyer of the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick, UK, says that if Britain must now fight "enemies within" in its escalated war on terror, it should be sure to fight the right ones, lest it hand victory to the very forces it seeks to defeat… After [...]
US Marines involved in the death of 24 civilians in Haditha last November concealed and destroyed evidence relating to the incident, the New York Times reported Friday. According to top military officials speaking to the Times who have been briefed on an investigation completed last month by US Army Major General Eldon Bargewell , the [...]
US v. Philip Morris, United States District Court for the District of Columbia Circuit, August 17, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Matthew Lee v. Ruth Ann Minner, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, August 16, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Thursday sided with several states and the federal government when it found that energy company Cinergy Corp. should have gone through a federal permit process prior to increasing their pollutant output after modernizing their facilities. The case was originally filed under the Clinton administration in [...]
