New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin Monday announced an overhaul of the criminal justice system in the city which was severely affected by Hurricane Katrina last year. Prosecutors from a neighboring parish in Louisiana have volunteered to help the New Orleans district attorney's office and the city has created a new system to call witnesses, many [...]
Anthony D'Amato : "I suggest below a very simple UN resolution for the Middle East conflict. On the table right now is the draft resolution proposed by France and the United States. It has run into serious objections from all quarters. The drafters apparently believe that by tinkering with it, they can come up with [...]
Kathi Cooper et al. v. IBM Personal Pension Plan et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, August 7, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The UN Sub-Commission on the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights on Monday denounced the "massive denial of human rights" in the ongoing conflict in Lebanon and called on the UN Security Council to work toward a permanent solution in the volatile area. In the statement, the Sub-Commission expressed: deep grief and outrage at the [...]
US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia denied a request Monday from Texas Republican Party chair Tina Benkiser seeking to stay a federal appeals court ruling that former US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay must remain on the Texas ballot for the November election against Democratic candidate Nick Lampson. According to the decision handed down last [...]
IBM did not discriminate against older workers by adopting a cash-balance pension plan, the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled Monday. A unanimous three-judge panel reversed a 2003 district court decision , finding that the IBM plan did not violate subsections of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) that prohibit age [...]
The sole surviving hostage-taker in the 2004 Beslan school siege will be given a new name to prevent retaliation by other inmates at the island penal colony where he will be imprisoned, a law enforcement source told the Interfax news agency Monday. Nurpashi Kulayev , who was found guilty of terrorism in May, will serve [...]
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has issued regulations that forbid party and government officials from appointing relatives as subordinates, limits officials to two consecutive five-year terms and requires those who have served for 10 years to transfer to different regions. The three regulations, issued Sunday, apply to officials at the county [...]
One of the US soldiers charged with the rape and murders of Iraqi civilians in Mahmudiya told a criminal investigator that the attack's alleged ringleader repeatedly spoke of wanting to kill Iraqis, according to testimony given Monday at a hearing in Baghdad. The investigator, Benjamin Bierce, testified at an Article 32 hearing to determine whether [...]
The federal trial of David Passaro , a CIA contractor accused of abusing a detainee in Afghanistan , began Monday in Raleigh, North Carolina. Passaro was charged in 2004, and has maintained that the government is using him as a scapegoat in the wake of the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal . Passaro is the first [...]
