The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has recommend Gov. Rick Perry grant a reprieve of the execution of Frances Newton, scheduled later Wednesday, to further examine defense claims that she is innocent. With a 5-1 vote, the board took the rare step of recommending a stay of the execution, which Parry can choose to [...]
A group of Democratic voters represented by the liberal group Alliance for Democracy will challenge the results of the presidential election in the state, alleging widespread irregularities, before an Ohio Supreme Court justice Wednesday. About 25 voters are challenging the results, though their lawyer, Cliff Arnebeck, said he expected other voters and groups to join [...]
The EU Commission has announced that it will pursue legal action Wednesday against Greece for disguising violations of EU budget restrictions on the country’s reported deficits from 1997 to 2003. The proceedings could result in fines imposed by the European Court of Justice if the country fails to correct the reporting problem, which Joaquin Almunia, [...]
The Washington state Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case over a long-running dispute between the two major daily newspapers in Seattle over which will control the market. The dispute between the Seattle Times Co. and the Hearst Corp., which owns the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, centers on a joint-operating agreement between the two under which [...]
The Russian news agency Interfax is reporting that Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych has asked the country's Supreme Court to declare the results of the presidential run-off invalid after outgoing President Leonid Kuchma called for an entirely new election. 8:56 AM ET – From Kyiv, weblogger Dan McKinn adds: "The Supreme Court has just received [...]
The Ukrainian parliament Wednesday narrowly approved a no-confidence motion in the government of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, the declared winner of last week's disputed presidential election, proposing instead a "government of national trust." The vote came on a second secret ballot after a first ballot failed; a similar measure had been proposed Tuesday, but the [...]
Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Wednesday, December 1. The US Supreme Court will hear 10 AM ET oral arguments in Rousey v. Jacoway (case summary from Duke Law School), where the court will decide whether and to what extent individual retirement accounts are exempt from [...]
United States v. Scrushy, United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Judge Karon Bowdre, November 23, 2004 . Read the files from the criminal docket for the case here and the full text of the memorandum opinion here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Koons Buick Pontiac GMC, Inc. v. Nigh, Supreme Court of the United States, November 30, 2004 . Excerpt: A divided panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that the 1995 amendment not only raised the statutory damages recoverable for TILA violations involving real-property-secured loans, it also removed the $1,000 [...]
Peter Friedman, Case Western Reserve University School of Law: "It should come as no great surprise that the Red Cross has reported that the U.S. used psychological and physical coercion "tantamount to torture" on Guantanamo Bay detainees and that doctors and other medical workers helped plan interrogations in "flagrant violation of medical ethics." As Philip [...]
