Judge Robert W. Pratt, chief judge of the US District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, ruled Friday that a religious prison organization receiving government funds violated the US Constitution because it was used to rehabilitate prison inmates by advocating the tenets of Christianity. He found that inmates who voluntarily entered the program benefited [...]
Cameron Frazier v. Cynthia Alexandre, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Judge Kenneth L. Ryskamp, May 31, 2006 . Read the full text of the Order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Dr. Wen Ho Lee , the US nuclear scientist at one time suspected of stealing nuclear secrets for China, Friday settled a civil lawsuit he had brought against the US Department of Justice and the Department of Energy alleging they leaked false and misleading information about him to reporters, contrary to the Privacy Act . [...]
A federal judge on Friday approved a $153 million settlement between tax firm KPMG and 200 of its former clients in a class action lawsuit based on illegal tax shelters sold by the firm from 1996 to 2002 which were categorized as abusive by the IRS . The settlement, preliminarily approved by US District Court [...]
Canadian Conservative Party Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday that he will ask MPs to vote this fall on a federal law permitting same-sex marriage . The Liberal Party of former prime minister Paul Martin, which now controls only 103 of 308 seats in the House of Commons, passed the bill last summer, making Canada [...]
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Friday sentenced Joseph Serugendo to six years in prison for direct and public incitement to commit genocide and persecution as a crime against humanity under a plea agreement where the ICTR dropped the more serious charges of genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide and complicity to commit genocide [...]
Nearly 200,000 people rallied in Kathmandu outside the palace of King Gyanendra Friday in a protest organized by Nepal's Maoist rebel insurgency to pressure the new government into speeding up plans to elect a special assembly to draft a new Nepal constitution. Krishna Bahadur Mahara , the Maoist negotiator with the recently reinstated parliament, told [...]
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US Ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald Neumann has said that US troops cannot be prosecuted under Afghan law, striking a sharp contrast to statements made Thursday by Afghan Deputy Chief Justice Abdul Malik Kamawi that all foreigners who commit a crime in Afghanistan can be prosecuted under Afghan law. Neumann added that the US military never [...]
A federal judge in Michigan has ordered the National Security Agency to respond to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union challenging the legality of the NSA's domestic surveillance program . US District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor denied the NSA's motion to stay consideration of the ACLU's motion for partial summary judgment [...]
