The US Senate is set to vote Tuesday on a compromise offered by senators in response to last Thursday's 49-42 vote to deny Guantanamo prisoners habeas corpus access to federal courts in order to contest the legality of their detentions. The Graham amendment to the 2006 Defense Appropriations Bill , if signed into law, would [...]
Hate Crimes Statistics Report, Federal Bureau of Investigation, November 14, 2005 . Read the full text of the FBI report here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
French President Jacques Chirac Monday delivered his first televised address since a recent surge of violence began in France nineteen days ago, promising that justice would be meted out to those responsible for the riots. "Those who make attacks against property and people must know that in a republic, they cannot violate the law without [...]
In a report released Monday, the US Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) characterized the Federal Drug Administration's review of the birth control drug Plan B for over-the-counter sale as "unusual" in procedure. The GAO report alleges that FDA management was more involved in Plan B approval than usual; that the decision not to approve the drug [...]
Schaffer v. Weast, Supreme Court of the United States, November 14 2005. Excerpt: When we are determining the burden of proof under a statutory cause of action, the touchstone of our inquiry is, of course, the statute. The plain text of IDEA is silent on the allocation of the burden of persuasion. We therefore begin [...]
European Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs Franco Frattini said Monday that although the informal EU investigation into the alleged existence of secret US prisons in European Union nations has revealed nothing, the EU will sanction any country found to house such facilities. Human Rights Watch has issued a statement which alleges that "there is [...]
Human Rights Report, UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Racial animus accounted for more than half of the 7,649 hate crimes reported in the United States in 2004, a 5 percent rise from 2003, according to the FBI's annual FBI Hate Crimes Statistics report . Overall, the nation experienced a slight two percent increase in hate crimes in 2004. The report defines hate crimes [...]
Lawyers in the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division are leaving their positions in record numbers amid allegations that the current administration is damaging morale and frustrating the efforts of long-time employees, according to a Washington Post report. The report alleges that attorneys in the division, which is charged with enforcing federal civil rights [...]
A Federal Communications Commission order , which sets the date for all broadband and internet-phone providers to modify their systems to comply with a federal law that requires telecommunications providers to cooperate with law enforcement agencies seeking to conduct wiretaps, took effect Monday. The order, adopted in September 2005, widens the scope of the 1994 [...]
