JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Hafetz, Associate Counsel with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law and co-author of amicus briefs in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Guantanamo detainee litigation, says that although Hamdan directly addressed only the handful of cases in which the administration has charged individuals before military [...]
European Commission antitrust regulators imposed a $357 million fine on Microsoft Wednesday for not complying with a 2004 European Union antitrust ruling . Early in July, the EC approved in principle new fines against Microsoft, after it warned last December that Microsoft may face fines of up to $2.5 million per day for not giving [...]
Eloise Pepion Cobell et al. v. Dirk Kempthorne et al., US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, July 11, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Establishing a Constitutional Process, US Senate Judiciary Committee, July 11, 2006 . Read the full text of witnesses' prepared statements. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Geoffrey Corn : "Today it was reported that the Department of Defense has officially acknowledged that Common Article 3 of the four Geneva Conventions applies to the conflict with Al Qaeda. In fact, the Memorandum issued by Gordon England specifically directs the military departments to ensure that all Department of Defense (DOD) personnel adhere to [...]
The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday directed that US District Judge Royce Lamberth , the outspoken jurist presiding over the 10-year old Indian Trust case involving the alleged mismanagement of American Indian money by the US Department of the Interior , be removed from the proceeding. A three-judge panel agreed with US Department [...]
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) Tuesday asked a federal district court judge to block a Minnesota law taking effect August 1 that imposes fines of up to $25 on minors who purchase games rated for adults and requires retailers to post notice of the fines. The ESA claims that although the law targets consumers rather [...]
A lawyer for the US Department of Defense (DOD) told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that US military treatment of detainees complies with Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions , even though the Bush administration had insisted until last week that detainees designated as enemy combatants were not entitled to Geneva protections. Responding to [...]
A group of Sunni legislators known as the Iraqi Accordance Front announced plans Tuesday to end their boycott of the Iraqi parliament after Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for unity. Members of the Front – the largest Sunni bloc, holding 44 of the 275 seats in the National Assembly – will return to legislative sessions [...]
Defense lawyers argued that Croatian journalist Josip Jovic should not have been prosecuted for contempt as his trial began Tuesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. Jovic, editor of Slobodna Dalmacija , has pleaded not guilty to contempt of court charges for violating an ICTY injunction against publishing [...]
