The French National Assembly , the lower house of parliament, on Wednesday approved compromise labor legislation to replace the controversial First Employment Contract (contrat premiere embauche, CPE) , the youth jobs plan that prompted weeks of protests across France. The new proposal calls for increased training and internships for youths, and would change only Article [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Douglas Branson of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that defense lawyers in recent corporate fraud cases are not seeking to introduce reasonable doubts that might lead a jury to acquit their clients, but in the absence of much direct evidence are rather offering competing versions of events that threaten [...]
Council on American Islamic Relations v. Ballenger, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, April 11, 2006 . Read the full text of the dismissal . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
French students and union members staged sporadic "victory marches" Tuesday to celebrate the government's withdrawal of the First Employment Contract (contrat premiere embauche, CPE) as legislators prepared for a vote on a replacement $180M job training and subsidization package that could come as early as Wednesday . Protest leaders are attempting to keep up pressure [...]
A new photograph of detainees from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq was released by the ACLU Tuesday after having been turned over by the US Department of Defense (DOD) pursuant to a federal court order directing compliance with a Freedom of Information Act request. The photo displays two men in orange jumpsuits with their faces [...]
The Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate introduced a proposed constitutional amendment Tuesday that would allow the country's president and state governors to seek a third term in office. Nigeria's constitution currently permits two four-year terms, and if it remains unchanged the upcoming 2007 elections will provide the first handover of power from one civilian [...]
Haiti's interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue has asked the country's High Court of Accounts and Administrative Disputes to conduct an investigation into the finances of all government officials and aides to address allegations of corruption and mismanagement. The audit will cover the two-year interim administration that was appointed after former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled [...]
Leading Tuesday's environmental law news, the UK Environment Agency has been found guilty of polluting the waters of the Barle River, a tributary of the Exe in Devon. The pollution consisted of hazardous chemicals from cement waste that was allowed to flow into the river. The Environment Agency had contracted for the construction of a [...]
The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a defamation lawsuit against former US Rep. Cass Ballenger which was brought by an American Muslim civil rights group. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) sued Ballenger for comments he made in a 2003 interview to the Charlotte Observer when he said the [...]
Pascale Duparc Portier : "Avec l'accord du president francais Jacques Chirac, le Premier Ministre Dominique de Villepin a finalement decide de "remplacer" le contrat premiere embauche par d'autres mesures d'aide à l'insertion des jeunes sur le marche du travail, plus ciblees. Le « remplacement » de l'article 8 de la loi sur l'égalité des chances [...]
