Iran on Friday threatened to block inspections of its nuclear facilities if the UN Security Council confronts it over its nuclear activities. Iran has been voluntarily allowing short-notice International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections since 2003 but last year adopted a law requiring the government to block intrusive inspections of Iran's facilities if the IAEA [...]
US District Judge Sim Lake ruled Thursday that prosecutors in the trials of Enron founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling cannot use recorded audio tapes of Enron employees discussing strategies to manipulate electricity prices because of their inflammatory nature. Lake, however, said he would allow testimony by Richard Sanders, Enron's in-house counsel, about [...]
US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein on Thursday dismissed the final remaining property damage claim against New York City stemming from the Sept. 11 attacks . Associated Electric & Gas Insurance Services Ltd. and five other insurers for the utility Consolidated Edison Company of New York sought repayment for expenses that arose from the collapse of [...]
Transcript of Day 4 of confirmation hearings for Judge Samuel Alito, Jr., nominated to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, US Senate Judiciary Committee, January 12, 2006. Read the full text transcript as provided to AP by CQ Transcriptions, LLC .
Legal authorities regarding warrantless surveillance of US persons, memo from Jeffrey H. Smith, former General Counsel of the CIA and a former General Counsel of the US Senate Armed Services Committee, to the Members of the US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, January 3, 2006 . Read the full text of the memo .
In the second day of pre-trial hearings for Canadian teenager Omar Khadr before a Guantanamo Bay military commission Thursday, presiding officer Col. Robert Chester said that Khadr's civilian lawyers could begin "making preliminary inquiries" about the possibility of a Canadian lawyer joining the defense team. Khadr is also waiting for a new military lawyer to [...]
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Richard Davis of Brigham Young University says that at the end of four days of Senate confirmation hearings, Judge Samuel Alito appears to have succeeded in his political task of securing enough swing votes to avoid a filibuster and assure his appointment to the US Supreme Court … The fourth day [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Mark Graber of the University of Maryland School of Law says that the Alito hearings have demonstrated yet again that political polarization has impoverished the judicial confirmation process… The fourth day of the Alito hearings highlighted the ongoing and complex role political polarization plays in the contemporary judicial confirmation process. There are [...]
Seven federal appellate judges who have worked with US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito testified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday on the fourth day of his confirmation hearings, saying that Alito would be an independent and ethical justice. Democrats on the Judiciary Committee opposed the testimony of the jurists, citing the judicial code [...]
Croatia plans to ask the government of Australia to extradite former Serb commander “Captain Dragan” Vasiljkovic , charged with war crimes committed during Croatia’s 1991-1995 independence war. Croatia accuses Vasiljkovic of torturing and killing Croat soldiers, civilians and prisoners of war and of involvement in the forced expulsion of entire villages in Serb-held territories in [...]
