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Judge from Saddam trial town kidnapped by gunmen
A judge from the Iraqi town that is the focus of the ongoing Saddam Hussein trial was abducted by gunmen Wednesday. Dujail Judge Walid Ahmed was kidnapped from his car on the highway between Tikrit and Samarra, according to an Interior Ministry sou (More) |
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Sudan appeals USS Cole ruling allowing families to sue
A lawyer for the government of Sudan urged the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit brought by families of the 17 sailors killed in the 2000 terrorist attack on the USS Cole [Wikipedia backgrounder; US DOD inqui (More) |
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Malvo testifies in second DC sniper trial
Lee Boyd Malvo testified Tuesday in a Maryland court against John Allen Muhammad in Muhammad's second trial involving the murder of six people in Maryland during a three-week shooting spree in the Washington, DC area in 2002. Malvo testified (More) |
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Roberts urges more consensus among Supreme Court justices
Chief Justice John Roberts wants greater consensus between justices on the US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] and hopes to decide issues on very narrow grounds in order to avoid unnecessary controversy. In a commencement addr (More) |
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Russia takes over leadership of Europe rights watchdog despite record
Russia Friday assumed the rotating chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (COE) [official website; JURIST news archive], the assembly responsible for maintaining human rights and democracy in Europe. Russian Minister o (More) |
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Texas court lifts execution stay, rejects lethal injection appeal
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Wednesday lifted its stay of execution for Derrick S. O'Brien , citing insufficient factual or scientific evidence proving that lethal injection causes suffering and leads to a painful death. Death penalty (More) |
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Russia judge delivering Beslan verdict rules hostage-taker terrorist
A Russian judge on Tuesday said that Nurpashi Kulayev participated in the September 2004 Beslan school siege [BBC backgrounder; MosNews report], committing an act of terrorism, but has not yet issued a final verdict on Kulayev's guilt. Kulayev, (More) |
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Moussaoui's life spared by one juror: report
Zacarias Moussaoui , the convicted Sept. 11 conspirator, was spared the death penalty by a single member of the jury who remained anonymous throughout the deliberations, according to an article in Friday's Washington Post. The inside informati (More) |
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Former US AG Clark calls Saddam trial threat to international law, human rights
Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark , now serving as a defense lawyer for ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein , called the trial of the former Iraqi leader "a direct threat to international law, the United Nations, universal human rights (More) |
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The National Security Court: A Natural Evolution
JURIST Guest Columnist Glenn Sulmasy, a professor of law at the US Coast Guard Academy, says it's time for US military commissions to evolve and morph into a national security court appropriate to handle the international jihadist threat... The (More) |
India sues Union Carbide over Bhopal industrial disaster
On April 8, 1985, the government of India filed a lawsuit against the Union Carbide Corporation for the Bhopal industrial disaster in which forty-two tons of methyl isocyanate gas was released from the pesticide plant of a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The disaster initially killed 2,000 Indians and injured another 200,000. These injuries led to another 16,000 deaths as a result of exposure to the gas. In 1989, the parties reached a $470 million settlement out of court.
Learn more about the Bhopal industrial disaster from the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department of the government of Madhya Pradesh.
