The highest-ranking lawyers from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines weighed in on how terror detainees should be judged during a Thursday Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the impact of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld . The military lawyers pressed for an approach informed by the Uniform Code of Military Justice , which provides greater [...]
Sarajevo's Canton Court sentenced former Bosnian Army soldier Samir Bejtic to 14 1/2 years in prison Thursday for killing Bosnian Serbs in 1993 during the 1992-95 Bosnian war . A member of the Sarajevo-based Tenth Mountain Brigade of the Bosnian army led by Bosnian Muslim Musan Topalovic , Bejtic was convicted of participating in the [...]
Saudi Arabia would like to have all of its nationals held at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay returned to Saudi custody within one year, Saudi ambassador to the United States Prince Turki Al-Faisal said Thursday. Approximately 95 of the over 400 Guantanamo detainees are from Saudi Arabia, including two men that were awaiting [...]
Efrain Rios Montt , a former Guatemalan dictator, has called Spanish National Court Judge Santiago Pedraz's order for Montt's arrest last week unfounded, insisting that he did not know of any crimes against humanity committed by his military officials during Guatemala's brutal 36-year civil war . During a news conference Wednesday, Montt added that the [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist A. John Radsan of William Mitchell College of Law, president of the Iranian-American Bar Association, says that while the silence of Iranian-Americans in the midst of rising tensions between the US and Iran may have been benign up until now, recent history suggests that members of the community may soon need to [...]
A New Jersey state jury in Atlantic City found Merck not liable Thursday for a woman's heart attack, saying that Merck adequately warned doctors of the health risks from the company's painkiller Vioxx . In what was the seventh Vioxx trial to reach a verdict, the jury also found that Merck did not use "unconscionable [...]
Ali Khan : "Endangering international peace and security and defying international law, the Middle East is spinning out of control. The recent spiral of violence intensified when Palestinian militants captured an Israeli soldier and converted him into a bargaining chip for obtaining the release of thousands of prisoners, including women and children, rotting in Israeli [...]
JURIST is back online after a major power failure in central Pittsburgh early Thursday knocked out power to the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and surrounding campus buildings. JURIST's staff dispersed to remote locations during the downtime, researching and reporting the day's national and international legal news as usual, although publication of stories to [...]
Wilson v. Libby, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, July 13, 2006 . Read the full text of the complaint . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006, passed by the the US House of Representatives, July 13, 2006 . Read the full text of the bill . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
