Federal prosecutors said Friday that they will retry Umer Hayat, who is accused of lying to the FBI about his son's alleged terrorism-related activities, after jury deadlock in his first trial prompted US District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to declare a mistrial . Umer and his son, Hamid Hayat , were charged last year [...]
US District Judge Reggie B. Walton has ruled that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will have to turn over documents essential to the I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby legal defense team regarding how a secret government intelligence report on Iraq was declassified. Walton's decision came in a hearing Friday concerning several Libby document requests in preparation for [...]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that Iran has a legal right to pursue its nuclear program and condemned a draft UN Security Council resolution currently being circulated , saying it does not have a legal basis. In comments during a summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization in Azerbaijan, Ahmadinejad also said that Iran was [...]
Immigration Law Sanctions and Enforcement in Selected Foreign Countries, Law Library of Congress Directorate of Legal Research, April 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Supplemental Submission to the Committee Against Torture, Huamn Rights Watch, April 2006 . Read the full text of the submission. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Enduring Abuse: Torture and Cruel Treatment by the United States at Home and Abroad, American Civil Liberties Union, April 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan encouraged the US on Friday to lead the world in advancing human rights in a speech at George Washington University, and criticized the Bush administration for deciding not to seek a position to the new UN Human Rights Council . Annan noted that the first members of the Human Rights Council [...]
JURIST , the non-commercial legal news and research service powered by law students led by Professor Bernard Hibbitts at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law , is in a dead heat with US legal television network Court TV in the final hours of public polling for the annual Webby Awards "People's Voice" award for [...]
US Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) , chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, released a report by the Law Library of Congress on Friday showing that several countries have harsher policies for illegal immigrants and their employers than the US. Sensenbrenner, the primary sponsor of a House-passed immigration bill that has sparked protests across the country, [...]
Michael J. Kelly : "With Porter Goss's resignation as CIA director, President Bush is presented with an opportunity to make real and lasting changes to a broken intelligence system. The cosmetic changes of two years ago (putting John Negroponte into a newly independent oversight post of Director of National Intelligence and blurring some of the [...]
