The New York Court of Appeals , the state's highest court, heard oral arguments Wednesday on whether the court should overturn the state's 97-year old statute defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman. On appeal from four consolidated cases – Hernandez v. Robles , Samuels v. New York State Department of [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that the Bush Administration's apparent lack of respect for norms of constitutional governance is more troubling than any breaches of technical law in either the NSA domestic surveillance program or the more recent FBI search of Rep. William Jefferson's congressional office… [...]
The Orleans Parish Criminal District Court building in New Orleans officially reopens Thursday morning, and the first criminal trials since Hurricane Katrina struck at the end of August are scheduled to start on Monday. According to Chief Judge Calvin Johnson, the court will be able to hear 12 or fewer cases a day in the [...]
The Prosecutor v. Charles Taylor, Appeals Chamber, Special Court for Sierra Leone, May 29, 2006 . Read the full text of the decision . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Report to the President, Death of Slobodan Milosevic, Judge Kevin Parker, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, May 31, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Justice George Gelaga King, newly-elected president of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) , has dismissed a defense challenge to a prosecutor’s motion to move the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor from Freetown, Sierra Leone, to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague in the Netherlands. Taylor, who is being tried [...]
President Bush Wednesday pledged to aid the Rwandan government in apprehending individuals involved in the 1994 genocide during a meeting with Rwandan President Paul Kagame at the White House. Bush also offered to reimburse Rwanda for sending some of its troops to help quell the conflict in Darfur , where what the administration claims is [...]
A preliminary investigation by the US Department of Defense (DOD) in February and March uncovered evidence that the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians by US Marines in Haditha in November were without warning or provocation, US officials said Wednesday. The evidence from the probe did not square with the accounts of the Marines involved, who [...]
A former Enron broadband executive was found guilty Wednesday on one count of falsifying records and conspiracy and three counts of wire fraud, and another was acquitted on the same five charges, one year after their first trial ended in a hung jury . Former CFO Kevin Howard, who was convicted, and senior accounting director [...]
A leader of the Islamic Action Front , the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, Wednesday criticized Jordan's draft anti-terrorism legislation as an oppressive, US-influenced bid to stifle Jordan's government reform movement and encourage the establishment of a police state in the country. The bill, first proposed last November in response to the [...]
