Arce, et al. v. Garcia, et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Circuit Judge Tjoflat, February 28, 2005 . Excerpt: From a United States perspective, there are many countries that oppress their citizens today, and many countries that have oppressed their citizens in decades and centuries past. A lenient approach toward [...]

Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, et al. v. Leavitt, Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Breyer, March 1, 2005 . Read the full text of the opinion here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries 2004, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, March 1, 2005 . Read the full text of the report here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Late reports from Baghdad say that US officials were incorrect in initially saying that Iraqi Special Tribunal judge Raid Juhi al-Saadi had been assassinated Tuesday, and that the judge actually killed was another man – as yet unnamed – serving as one of dozens of investigatory administrative judges working for the tribunal. FOX News has [...]

Stephen Bainbridge : "I'm increasingly opposed to the death penalty on both pragmatic and moral grounds, but I nevertheless found much to agree with in Justice Antonin Scalia's scathing dissent from the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision striking down the death penalty for offenses committed by juveniles (text of opinion): In Lawrence v. Texas, Justice Kennedy [...]

FOX News is reporting that the Iraqi Special Tribunal judge overseeing the lagal proceedings against Saddam Hussein has been assassinated. Raid Juhi al-Saadi,35, was reportedly gunned down outside his home in Baghdad. He had already survived several assassination attempts and had recently moved into a special walled compound with his family that had been hardened [...]

In Tuesday's environmental law brief, the DuPont Co. has settled a complaint for $ 106.7M for polluting local drinking water around Parkersburg, West Virginia with the chemical C8. C8 is used for the manufacture of Teflon. The money will be used in a study to determine whether C8 harms humans, to pay plaintiff's attorney fees, [...]

Iran has refused to cooperate with UN nuclear inspection teams in the country, including blocking them from revisiting a site the US alleged was used for weapons development, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday. The IAEA Board of Directors, which is meeting this week, heard from IAEA Deputy Director Pierre Goldschmidt that Iran had [...]

New UK anti-terrorism legislation that passed the House of Commons on Monday may face a tougher challenge in the House of Lords as debate began Tuesday. The bill's momentum was somewhat weakened after numerous members of the Labour Party rebelled on several votes on the Prevention of Terrorism Bill . The Blair government is hoping [...]

The US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned EPA regulations designed to deal with water pollution from manure pollution on major farms. The court ruled Monday that the regulations , which took effect in February 2003 were not adequate to ensure that large farms would comply with requirements under the Clean Water Act to [...]