McDonald's is facing multiple legal actions after the fast-food giant admitted last week that milk and wheat ingredients are used to flavor its trademark french fries. Lawsuits in Illinois, California and Florida have been filed by two people claiming intolerance to gluten, a protein found in wheat, and by a vegetarian who claims she would [...]
Human rights groups have condemned the Egyptian Higher Judiciary Council's decision to strip three judges of immunity after they protested voting irregularities during the December parliamentary elections. Members of a group known as the Judges Club, the three were charged with defamation after they refused to monitor run-off elections in protest of the irregularities. Vocal [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Sunday refused to stay the execution of Michael Morales , but in a second decision also approved the presence of a doctor at his execution Tuesday morning to ensure that Morales is unconscious and to defray "an undue risk that will suffer excessive pain when he [...]
British historian David Irving has pleaded guilty before an Austrian criminal court to charges of denying the World War II Holocaust . Irving, 68, was arrested in Austria in November pursuant to a 1989 warrant based on two speeches in which he denied the Nazis' use of gas chambers. Denial of the Holocaust is a [...]
Statement for the Record: Office of General Counsel Involvement in Interrogation Issues, US Navy General Counsel Alberto J. Mora, July 7, 2004 . Read the full text of the memo , as published by the New Yorker. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Belgium has become the first country in the world to ban the manufacture and use of cluster bombs following passage of legislation by a sound majority of its lower house of parliament. The legislation had already passed in the upper house of parliament last July. Human rights organizations such as Handicap International (HI) and Human [...]
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has again said that his country refuses to extradite any Sudanese citizens for prosecution by the International Criminal Court . In remarks made during this weekend's celebration of the golden jubilee of the Sudanese Judiciary, al-Bashir said that only Sudan had jurisdiction over war crimes suspects in cases stemming from the [...]
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) said Sunday that existing legislation governing domestic surveillance does not need to be rewritten or updated. Appearing on CBS News' Face the Nation, Frist also said that he believed that the National Security Agency does not need to obtain a court order before engaging in domestic eavesdropping under the [...]
The French, German, and British ambassadors to the US on Sunday called for the United States to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, with French Ambassador Jean-David Levitte going so far as to call the facility "an embarrassment." The critical remarks come on the heels of a UN report alleging that some detainees have been [...]
Leading Monday's international brief, the Israeli Cabinet has agreed to impose a hefty series of sanctions against the Palestinian Authority (PA) unless the ruling party of Hamas commits to non-violence and drops its call for the destruction of Israel. Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the cabinet that Hamas' majority status in the Palestinian [...]
