US Army Major General James Thurman will decide in September whether four US soldiers accused of raping and murdering a 14-year old Iraqi girl and killing three family members in Mahmudiya will face a court-martial, a US military spokesman said Wednesday. Thurman, who is the commander of the Army's 4th Infantry Division, is awaiting recommendations [...]
A federal district court judge on Tuesday ordered San Francisco Chronicle reporters Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada to reveal the source of leaked grand jury testimony they used as background for newspaper reports and a book the two wrote about Major League Baseball player Barry Bonds and the steroid controversy involving the now-defunct BALCO corporation. [...]
An attorney representing Valerie Plame, the undercover operative whose revealed identity precipitated the CIA leak scandal , announced Tuesday he would use legal precedent from former President Bill Clinton's sexual harassment trial in a bid to force Vice President Dick Cheney and White House aide Karl Rove to testify in Plame's lawsuit against Cheney, Rove [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania (ACLU) and the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF) on Tuesday sued the city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania on behalf of 11 city residents and business owners over the city's tough new Illegal Immigration Relief Act . Last month, Hazleton voted to punish landlords and employers that [...]
Leonard v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, United States District Court of Mississippi Southern Division, August 15, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
An Act to preserve the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial in San Diego, California, by providing for the immediate acquisition of the memorial by the United States, signed by President George W. Bush, August 14, 2006 . Read the full text of the Act . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
A plan devised by Egyptian mediators calls for Israel to release Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the return of an Israeli soldier held by Hamas , Reuters reported Tuesday, citing an anonymous source. Under the proposal, Israel would free as many as 600 Palestinians, including women and children, while Hamas would hand over Cpl. Gilad [...]
The Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled Tuesday that US tariffs on softwood lumber from Canada violate international trade rules. The appellate report reverses April's panel decision favoring the United States , which Canada appealed. The Appellate Body found that the US method of calculating the anti-dumping tariffs, known as zeroing, arrived [...]
A federal judge in Mississippi ruled Tuesday that Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company was not obligated to cover a policyholder's claims for water damage caused by Hurricane Katrina . The trial was the first resulting from hundreds of lawsuits against insurance companies that refused to pay for some Katrina-related damage. After an eight-day bench trial, Senior [...]
British authorities on Tuesday arrested another suspect in connection with last week's foiled terror plot to blow up jetliners headed for various airports in the United States, bringing the number of arrested suspects up to 25. London's Metropolitan Police Service only disclosed that they had made an arrest in the Thames Valley, and did not [...]
