The Netherlands should adopt immigration laws similar to those in Australia – widely considered the most stringent in the industrialized world and sometimes harshly criticized – Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said Monday during an official visit to Canberra. Balkenende said immigrants who seek to enter his country, like those who enter Australia, should [...]
The US Department of Defense Monday released 2,600 pages of case review documents pertaining to Guantanamo Bay prisoners, finally making public the names of all 490 prisoners currently held at the facility after disclosing the identities of more then 300 last month. The documents consist of Administrative Review Board (ARB) summaries for hearings held after [...]
A jury has found Zacarias Moussaoui eligible for the death penalty for his role in the Sept. 11 terror attacks . Moussaoui pleaded guilty last year to six conspiracy charges , admitting involvement with al Qaeda, but said at the time that he had no role in the Sept. 11 plot. During his sentencing trial [...]
After waiting twenty-five years to get their day in court, lawyers for the Metis people of Manitoba delivered opening arguments Monday in a case that will determine whether 1.4 million acres of land – including a portion of Winnipeg, Manitoba's capital city – was illegally taken from them by the Canadian government . At issue [...]
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has held that the US adhered to international trade rules in setting softwood lumber tariffs against Canada . A WTO panel publicly released a report Monday that was originally disclosed to the parties in February. Canada had claimed that the US had violated the WTO's Anti-Dumping Agreement , which allows [...]
AP is reporting that court officials have said that the jury in the Zacarias Moussaoui sentencing trial has reached a verdict. The verdict will be read in court at 4 PM ET. Moussaoui pleaded guilty to six conspiracy charges last year relating to the Sept. 11 terror attacks and the current trial is to determine [...]
Special Court for Sierra Leone, summary of war crimes charges against ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor at his first appearance before the SCSL in Freetown, April 3, 2006. Text: Charles Ghankay Taylor, the former President of Liberia, was indicted on 7 March 2003 on a 17-count indictment for crimes against humanity, violations of Article 3 common [...]
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor pleaded not guilty to war crimes charges in his first appearance before the Special Court for Sierra Leone Monday. Taylor initially refused to recognize the jurisdiction of the court but then entered a not guilty plea to all 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity outlined in his [...]
Padilla v. Hanft, Supreme Court of the United States, April 3, 2006 . Excerpt from Justice Anthony Kennedy's concurrence, in which Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice John Paul Stevens joined: Whatever the ultimate merits of the parties' mootness arguments, there are strong prudential considerations disfavoring the exercise of the Court's certiorari power. Even if [...]
Jim McGinty , attorney general of Western Australia , has announced plans to introduce legislation that would allow for regular television broadcast of court proceedings in the state, which would make the state's courts the first in the country to broadcast proceedings regularly. The proposal comes weeks before the completion of a high-tech, high security [...]
