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Tolerance on Trial: Why We Reprinted the Danish Cartoons
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Faris Sanabani, Publisher of the English-language Yemen Observer newspaper currently facing calls by Yemeni prosecutors for permanent shutdown, confiscation, and even the death penalty against its Chief Editor for repub (More) |
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Moussaoui trial aviation evidence exclusion order [US DC]
Order as to the Defendant's Motion to Dismiss the Death Notice, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, March 14, 2006 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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Europe rights court throws out Saddam lawsuit
The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday denied the admissibility of a lawsuit brought by Saddam Hussein against 21 European countries on the grounds that the case fell outside its jurisdiction. Saddam's lawyers had claimed that the 21 E (More) |
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BREAKING NEWS ~ Moussaoui judge rules death penalty case can go on
Wire services are reporting that US District Judge Leonie Brinkema has ruled that the government can continue to seek the death penalty in the Zacarias Moussaoui case, but that the government aviation witnesses who were improperly coached by a Tran (More) |
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Moussaoui trial witness denies tainting by prosecutorial breach
A government witness who was coached by a Federal Aviation Administration attorney on the US case against accused would-be hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui told US District Judge Leonie Brinkema Tuesday that she was not tainted by the extra information (More) |
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Trials begin for white supremacist prison gang members
Four members of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang go on trial Tuesday in California as the government attempts to bring an end to the white supremacist group. Altogether, twenty members of the gang face eventual trial in what has been described as (More) |
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Saving more lives than Moussaoui's
Brian J. Foley : "If U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema throws out the government's bid to have the death penalty imposed on confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, as a result of apparent misconduct by government lawyers in the (More) |
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Moussaoui judge recesses trial as government misconduct puts death penalty on line
US District Judge Leonie Brinkema stunned courtroom observers Monday by calling a recess in the September 11 hijacking trial of Zacarias Moussaoui Monday after being informed that government lawyers had coached witnesses in the case. The government (More) |
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Saddam trial resumes after critical UN report
The Saddam Hussein trial resumed in Baghdad Sunday without any disruptions as three co-defendants took the stand to testify about the killings of 142 Shiites in the Iraqi town of Dujail after a failed 1982 attempt on Hussein's life. It was the (More) |
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Moussaoui judge warns prosecutors not to base death penalty case on failure to act
Presiding US District Judge Leonie Brinkema Thursday warned prosecutors in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui against making any indication to jury members that Moussaoui was obligated to tell FBI agents about his terrorist connections aft (More) |
Justinian I issues Corpus Juris Civilis
On April 7, 529 - Byzantine Emperor Justinian I issued the first draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of Civil Law). The Justinian Code represented a revival of Roman Law and a compilation of laws for the Byzantine Empire. It became the foundation of Canon Law in the Catholic Church and Civil Law in modern Europe.
Learn more about the Corpus Juris Civilis from the University of Wyoming College of Law.
