A Chinese court has overturned a 2004 decision by the country's patent review board allowing Chinese drug companies to sell counterfeit versions of the Pfizer drug Viagra , upholding Pfizer's patent and signaling China's intent to crack down on intellectual property rights violations, an official at the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court confirmed Monday. [...]
Nepal officials on Sunday released three former ministers in the cabinet of the recently-dissolved royal government after the country's Supreme Court ruled that it could find no evidence for their continued detention. Former home minister Ramesh Nath Pandev, former foreign minister Nichhya Sumshere Rana and former state information and communications minister Srish Sumshere Rana were [...]
Defense lawyers in the Saddam Hussein trial resumed their case Monday after chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman said that four defense witnesses accused of perjury last week had been arrested and could therefore not attend Monday's session. Hussein's defense team last week accused the prosecution of trying to bribe one defense witness to testify against Hussein, [...]
The number of Guantanamo Bay detainees on hunger strike decreased from 89 to 18 over the weekend, US military officials said Sunday. The number of detainees on hunger strike suddenly jumped from three to 75 early last week, with an additional 14 joining the hunger strike late in the week. Detainees appear to have begun [...]
The Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) – formerly known as the Iraqi Special Tribunal – has approved the disinterment of bodies buried in mass graves southwest of Baghdad, where forensic experts worked over the weekend to unearth alleged victims of a suppressed 1991 Shiite uprising encouraged by the US that occurred in the aftermath of the [...]
The American Bar Association Board of Governors voted unanimously Saturday to launch an inquiry into President Bush's frequent use of signing statements to bypass new laws because of his interpretation of presidential and executive powers under the US Constitution. The President has used such statements some 750 times since taking office in 2001. In January [...]
An Iraqi lawyer related to several Iraqi civilians who were among the 24 allegedly killed by US Marines in Haditha last November denounced the US military Saturday via videotape, claiming US "compensation money" of $2,500 per victim to the families of each casualty were insufficient. Khaled Salem Rsayef also claimed that during the initial meeting [...]
The Parliament of Montenegro issued a declaration of independence Saturday on the basis of the May 21 referendum in which 55.5% of Montenegrins voted in favor of independence from Serbia . The new country's government, the last spin-off from the former Yugoslavia, says it plans to apply for membership to organizations such as the United [...]
US v. I. Lewis Libby, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Reggie B. Walton, June 3, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Americans United for Church and State et al. v. Prison Fellowship Ministries et al., United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, Chief Judge Robert W. Platt, June 2, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
