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Legal agenda and live webcasts ~ Monday, March 14
Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Monday, March 14.The US Senate convenes at 10 AM ET today to begin consideration of the FY 2006 budget resolution. Watch a live webcast (More) |
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Army reports indicate abuse caused Afghan prisoner deaths in 2002
The New York Times reported Saturday that as-yet-unreleased investigative reports obtained by Human Rights Watch reveal that the 2002 deaths of two Afghan prisoners in US custody resulted from them being chained and beaten by American soldiers at B (More) |
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BREAKING NEWS ~ Judge rejects Florida DCF bid to intervene in Schiavo case
AP is reporting that a judge has rejected a bid by the Florida's Department of Children and Families to intervene in the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case. The Department had sought an additional 60-day stay of the removal of Schiavo's feedin (More) |
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Ruling on prisoners' rights to sue under civil rights laws without habeas [US SC]
Wilkinson v. Dotson, Supreme Court of the United States, March 7, 2005 . Excerpt:Throughout the legal journey from Preiser to Balisok, the Court has focused on the need to ensure that state prisoners use only habeas corpus (or similar state) remedies (More) |
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Joining the World Against Juvenile Executions
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego notes that with the Supreme Court's recent ruling in Roper v. Simmons, the United States has finally joined the community of nations that says the state-sanct (More) |
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Amnesty International founder dies
Peter Benenson , founder of the human rights group Amnesty International, died in Oxford, England on Friday after a long illness. He was 83 . Benenson set up Amnesty in response to a call for action in an article published in the British newspaper (More) |
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Federal appeals court overturns molestor's conviction on Sixth Amendment grounds
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has set aside the 1988 child-molestation conviction of a Nevada man, ruling that the 2004 US Supreme Court decision in Crawford v. Washington [PDF text; JURIST report] limiting hearsay statements applie (More) |
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FL court allows husband to remove feeding tube from Terri Schiavo
The Second District Court of Appeals in Florida issued a one-page mandate on Tuesday allowing Michael Schiavo to remove the feeding tube which sustains his brain-damaged wife Terri Schiavo . Terri's parents were seeking an emergency stay to ke (More) |
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International brief ~ South African prosecutors seek new trial for 'Dr. Death'
In Tuesday's international brief, state prosecutors for South Africa have appealed to the Constitutional Court for permission to retry Dr. Wouter Basson, a scientist allegedly employed by the apartheid government to create a "smart virus (More) |
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Iraqi women still face discriminatory laws in post-Saddam period, Amnesty reports
Iraqi women face increased violence and more restrictions on freedom in the period after Saddam Hussein's regime was toppled, according to an Amnesty International report released Tuesday. Amnesty found that systematic repression of women commo (More) |
Maurice Papon convicted of war crimes
On April 2, 1998, Maurice Papon was convicted of war crimes for his role in deporting French Jews to concentration camps during the Nazi occupation of France. Under German occupation, Papon served as the supervisor of the Service for Jewish Questions in Bordeaux from which he collaborated with the Nazi S.S. and oversaw the deportation of 1,560 Jewish men, women, and children to concentration camps.
Read an biography of Maurice Papon from the BBC.
