JURIST Contributing Editor Mary Ellen O'Connell of Notre Dame Law School says that the principle of proportionality in the use of force is a necessary, sensible and humane doctrine of international law that Israel and Hezbollah would do well to respect in the latest Middle East conflict… A number of world leaders responding to Israel’s [...]
Indian authorities arrested three men Friday in connection with the July 11 Mumbai train bombings that killed over 180 people . The three suspects arrested by authorities – Khaleel Aziz Sheikh, Kamal Ahmed Ansari and Mumtaz Ahmed Chowdhury – are not the same three suspects Indian authorities named last week. Mumbai police, amid speculation that [...]
Tash Hepting et al. v. AT&T et al., United States District Court for the Northern District of California, US District Judge Vaughn Walker, July 20, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
A federal judge Thursday rejected a US Department of Justice (DOJ) motion to dismiss on state secrets grounds a class action lawsuit brought against AT&T alleging that the telecommunications giant violated citizens' rights to privacy as well as several federal statutes when it allowed the National Security Agency to use its infrastructure to wiretap US [...]
US authorities announced Thursday that compensation payments totaling $112,000 had been approved for victims of a May accident involving an American cargo truck in Kabul, Afghanistan , that set off an anti-American riot in which at least seven people died. According to conflicting reports, either US soldiers or Afghan police fired into a crowd to [...]
Cambodian genocide suspect Ek Choeun, also known as Ta Mok , died Thursday after having slipped into a coma in Phnom Penh earlier this week. He was 80. The former zone secretary and central committee member of the Khmer Rouge , who had been suffering from high blood pressure, tuberculosis, respiratory and other problems, was [...]
The US Senate voted Thursday to extend the Voting Rights Act (VRA) Thursday by 25 years rather than allowing portions of it to expire. The bill reauthorizing the VRA, which over the past four decades has helped to end election schemes that kept blacks from the polls, was approved by a vote of 98-0. Speaking [...]
Former US Rep. Bob Barr on Thursday filed a complaint on behalf of Georgia firearms dealer Adventure Outdoors in a Georgia state court alleging that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg violated state and federal laws while preparing to file a federal lawsuit against fifteen out-of-state gun dealers . The complaint alleges that Bloomberg committed [...]
A lawyer for Tariq Aziz , former deputy prime minister and foreign minister for ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, has filed a habeas corpus petition with the US Supreme Court , seeking his release from the custody of coalition forces in Iraq. Aziz lawyer Giovanni Di Stefano presented two questions to the Court Wednesday: (1) [...]
Responding to recent controversy over UK sentencing guidelines and following up on a major June policy address by Prime Minister Tony Blair, Home Secretary John Reid on Thursday released a criminal justice system review making several recommendations aimed at putting the rights of victims before the rights of criminals. To strengthen sentencing procedure, the Home [...]
