Recent British court rulings against the legality of control orders restricting terror suspects have precipitated a "constitutional crisis" in the UK, according to Labour Party MP John Denham , chair of the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee , speaking Thursday on BBC Radio 4 . Denham was responding to Wednesday's High Court ruling striking [...]
Kazakhstan's parliament has approved legislation that would subject the news media to more state control. It will not take effect unless signed by President Nursultan Nazarbayev , who vetoed a similar law in 2004. The new legislation provides for high administrative fines and registration fees for media organizations, according to the Organisation for Security and [...]
Australian-born terror suspect David Hicks will serve his prison sentence in Australia if convicted by a US military commission at Guantanamo Bay , Australian Justice Minister Chris Ellison said Thursday. Hicks, captured in Afghanistan by US forces in 2001 with suspected ties to the Taliban, is one of ten charged Guantanamo Bay detainees awaiting trial [...]
A commission headed by the chief judge of New York has recommended that a permanent state commission be established to assume control of the state's indigent legal service systems to ensure that they meet the constitutional requirements for providing adequate representation. Speaking at a news conference Wednesday, Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye unveiled the final [...]
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil lawsuit in federal court Wednesday alleging that at least six current and former employees of BP North America manipulated propane prices in 2004 by using BP's dominant market position to increase heating costs in the middle of winter. The CFTC is seeking an injunction against [...]
The US House of Representatives has defeated a measure that would have barred the US Justice Department from collecting evidence in violation of the "knock and announce" rule. The House voted 310-109 late Wednesday to reject an amendment offered by Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) in reaction to the US Supreme Court's decision two weeks ago [...]
As Americans prepare to celebrate Independence Day on July 4, JURIST Guest Columnists David Crane and Fred Bryant, former senior legal officials in the US Defense Department, say that the United States cannot win either the war in Iraq or the fight against international terrorism without holding fast to the rule of law that has [...]
The Israeli military arrested seven Palestinian Cabinet ministers and some 20 lawmakers Thursday as tensions mounted between Israel and Palestinians sparked by the Sunday abduction of Israeli soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit in Gaza. Israel Army Radio indicated that Israel may trade some of the arrested leaders from the Hamas party that now controls the Palestinian [...]
Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon and Bustillo v. Johnson, Supreme Court of the United States, June 28, 2006 . Read the Court's majority opinion per Chief Justice Roberts, along with a concurrence in the judgment from Justice Ginsburg, and a dissent from Justice Breyer, who was joined in full by Justices Stevens and Souter and in part [...]
Beard v. Banks, Supreme Court of the United States, June 28, 2006 . Read the Court's opinion per Justice Breyer, along with a concurrence in the judgment from Justice Thomas, who was joined by Justice Scalia, a dissent from Justice Stevens, who was joined by Justice Ginsburg, and a separate dissent from Ginsburg. Reported in [...]
