A federal judge Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by Public Citizen arguing that a $39 billion deficit-reduction bill passed by Congress was unconstitutional because the House version and Senate version actually signed by the President were slightly different. The inconsistency was the result of an error made by the Senate clerk, who altered text in [...]
Resolution 1701, August 11, 2006 . Read the full text of the resolution and a summary of statements. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Brendan MacWade et al. v. Raymond Kelly et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, August 11, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Resolution on the grave situation of human rights in Lebanon caused by Israeli military operations, UN Human Rights Council, August 11, 2006 . Real the full text of the resolution . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The UN Security Council late Friday unanimously approved a resolution to end the current Middle East conflict , calling for Hezbollah to stop all attacks immediately and for Israel to cease “all offensive military operations.” The resolution additionally authorized the deployment of an expanded UNIFIL peacekeeping force of up to 15,000 troops mandated to monitor [...]
Abandoned and Abused: Orleans Parish Prisoners in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina, American Civil Liberties Union, August 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
A former vice chair of Wal-Mart was sentenced on Friday to 27 months of house arrest after he pleaded guilty in January to fraud and tax charges for stealing money, merchandise and gift cards from the store and filing a false tax report. Tom Coughlin was referred to federal prosecutors by Wal-Mart lawyers after they [...]
The Italian Interior Ministry said Friday that Italian police arrested 40 people on Thursday and Friday after the ministry decided to conduct security sweeps in cities across Italy following Thursday's news that UK police arrested over 20 terror suspects in a foiled terrorist plot to bomb commercial airliners destined for the United States. The 40 [...]
A Maryland intermediate appellate court on Friday ruled that the state exceeded its state constitutional authority by enacting statutes permitting early voting. In the opinion , a judge for the Anne Arundel County Circuit Court found that the question of when Maryland residents must vote is controlled by Section 1 of the Maryland Constitution , [...]
A federal appeals court Friday upheld New York City's program of random, suspicionless baggage searches on subways as constitutional. The US Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the search program "satisfies the special needs exception to the Fourth Amendment's usual requirement of individualized suspicion." The New York Civil Liberties Union brought the lawsuit on [...]
