The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked a federal court in Washington for a two-year extension of a Microsoft antitrust order because the software giant has been slow to supply proper technical documentation to the licensees of its communications protocols. The remedial settlement between Microsoft, the DOJ, and nine states, approved in 2002 , [...]
Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi v. George Bush et al., United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Emmett Sullivan, May 12, 2006 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
A federal judge Friday stayed the military commission trial of a Saudi Arabian man who has been held at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay since 2002 for allegedly plotting with members of al Qaeda to build car bomb detonators in Pakistan and send them to Afghanistan. US District Judge Emmett Sullivan froze the [...]
A new report by the Irish Human Rights Commission released Friday has found that Ireland may be in breach of international human rights laws because the country does not currently recognize same-sex marriages . The Rights of De Facto Couples report notes that Ireland gives more rights to married couples than to gay couples or [...]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Friday that the Virginia home and office of former CIA executive director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo were searched as part of an investigation into Foggo's possible involvement in a congressional bribery scheme. Foggo is being investigated by the FBI, the Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) , [...]
Telecommunications company Qwest on Friday explained its decision to deny the National Security Agency (NSA) access to its customers' telephone records in contrast to competitors AT&T, Verizon, and BellSouth which allowed that. According to a company lawyer, former Qwest CEO Joseph N. Nacchio concluded that "the requests violated the privacy requirements of the Telecommunications Act [...]
Members of a European Union delegation currently in the US to investigate reports of secret CIA prisons in Europe for the European Parliament have complained about non-cooperation by US State Department officials after a meeting to discuss alleged renditions . Claudio Fava , who will write the final European Parliament report, said US officials gave [...]
A UK bill that would let British doctors present the option of assisted suicide to patients with less than six months to live who are experiencing "extreme suffering" stalled Friday in the British House of Lords . After spending the day debating whether it was ethical to allow the terminally ill to be administered drugs [...]
US government lawyers urged a federal judge Friday to dismiss a civil lawsuit filed by Khalid el-Masri against former CIA director George Tenet and other CIA officials. El-Masri is a German national who alleges he was kidnapped in Macedonia in 2003, held by the CIA in Afghanistan and finally released in 2004 and dropped off [...]
Finland's parliament on Friday voted to approve the stalled European Constitution , taking an initial step toward ratifying the constitution. Ratification will occur following the approval of the cabinet and a second formal vote in parliament and would make Finland the sixteenth European country to endorse the constitution. Finland will assume the EU presidency for [...]
