The ACLU of Northern California has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court of Northern California on behalf of Pacific News Service, seeking a permanent injunction to prevent the California Department of Corrections and San Quentin Prison from using the paralytic drug pancuronium bromide (also known as Pavulon) during executions, arguing that it violates [...]
Reuters is reporting that the US military will close Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison and transfer approximately 4,500 prisoners to other facilities in Iraq, according to a military spokesman. The prison, a torture center under the regime of Saddam Hussein that again became notorious for abuses during the US occupation, is expected to close within the [...]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has uncovered over 100 violations of wiretapping and intelligence gathering rules in the past two years, including using wiretaps that exceeded the scope authorized by court warrant and obtaining communications with an expired warrant, according to a report released Wednesday by the US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector [...]
Google has agreed to pay up to $90M to settle a class action lawsuit filed last year in Arkansas state court, alleging that Google and other online search engine companies overcharged for pay-per-click advertising, in which advertisers pay a fee every time an internet user clicks on their ads. "Click fraud" occurs when fraudulent users [...]
Human rights violations remain a problem in the United States, including illegal wiretapping, police abuse, wrongful convictions, and the world's highest ratio of people behind bars, according to a report released Thursday by China. The Human Rights Record of the US in 2005 was released in response to the US State Department's annual 2005 Country [...]
Leading Tuesday's international brief, the Supreme Court of India has exercised a rarely used power and sentenced Zahira Sheikh for deliberately retracting her testimony concerning the arson of the Best Bakery in the state of Gujarat during riots anti-Muslim riots by Hindu civilians that resulted in dozens of deaths. Sheikh's sentence is a rare use [...]
Serbia and Montenegro Wednesday contested the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice at The Hague to hear a case brought by Bosnia accusing Serbia's predecessor state Yugoslavia of perpetrating state-sponsored genocide during the 1992-1995 Bosnian Wars. Lawyers for Serbia argued that the conflict was between ethnic groups and not the two sovereign states appearing [...]
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Wendy J. Keefer, former senior counsel and chief of staff in the US Department of Justice Office of Legal Policy and now with Bancroft Associates in Washington DC, says that although the end result of the Patriot Act reauthorization process is not perfect, most of the changes made by the two [...]
JURIST Special Guest Columnist P. Sabin Willett, a partner at Bingham McCutchen, LLP, working pro bono with a team of Bingham lawyers in the Guantanamo habeas litigation, says that the detention of a Chinese Uighur is just one proof that the general, officially-articulated proposition that Guantanamo holds terrorists is a lie… Adel's anniversary is coming [...]
Results of a new study released by the Dublin Roman Catholic archdiocese in Ireland show that while 102 Dublin priests are suspected of abusing children since 1940 and 32 of them are facing lawsuits, only eight have actually been convicted of criminal offenses. Even so, the legal bill for the archdiocese has already has paid [...]
