Means v. Navajo Nation, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, August 24, 2005 . Excerpt: The Navajo Nation is empowered, under the 1990 Amendments, to prosecute and punish Indians for misdemeanors, despite their status as nonmembers of the tribe. The denial of Means's petition for a writ of habeas corpus is AFFIRMED. [...]

An anonymous Western diplomat told AFP Wednesday that the United States is lobbying for Iran to go before the UN Security Council if it does not comply with a September 3 deadline to stop the nuclear fuel operations it resumed earlier this month . The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) began investigating Iran's nuclear program [...]

Roy v. Secretary for Justice, Hong Kong High Court, Judge Michael Hartmann, August 24, 2005 . Read the full text of the opinion here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A Kenyan judge Wednesday called for medical examinations of six suspects who allege they were tortured by police in the murder investigation of Roman Catholic Bishop Luigi Locati , who was shot to death in July. The men claim that the police burned them with cigarettes, suspended them upside down, denied food and water, and [...]

Leading Wednesday's states brief, a New Jersey court of appeals ruled today that out-of-state companies with no physical presence in the state may be taxed on sales of their goods. State Treasurer John McCormac said the ruling "affirms our long-standing interpretation of tax responsibility for companies doing business in New Jersey and obligated to pay [...]

A US federal judge has ruled that there is enough evidence for families of the 17 sailors who died in the 2000 terror attack in Yemen on the USS Cole to pursue their lawsuit against the Sudanese government. US District Judge Robert G. Doumar said that there is a sufficient amount of evidence showing that [...]

Former Abu Ghraib commander Janis Karpinski has alleged that US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld personally signed a memorandum authorizing extreme interrogation techniques used at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison . In an interview with Thomas Jefferson School of Law Professor Marjorie Cohn published Wednesday on truthout.org, Karpinski said that when she first visited the prison [...]

Senators Charles Schumer and Russ Feingold said Wednesday that they expected US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts to address why he chose not to recuse himself from the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case before the DC Circuit challenging the Bush adminstration's position on the legality of military commissions when he was already being interviewed by the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that a Navajo tribal court can proceed with its prosecution of Russell Means even though he is not a member of the tribe. Means, a member of the Ogala-Sioux tribe, was charged with misdemeanors under the Navajo Code for threatening and battering his father-in-law [...]

Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson said Wednesday that his remarks earlier this week seeming to call for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez were misinterpreted. Speaking Monday on the Christian Broadcast Network's The 700 Club , Robertson said that the US has the ability "to take out" and that the US should exercise that [...]