US Marine officers censured for handling of Haditha Iraqi murders probe
The Secretary of the Navy on Wednesday handed down letters of censure to three US Marine officers for improper performance of duties related to the reporting and investigation of the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians at...
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that the President's recent Executive Order interpreting Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions for US interrogations practice is an invalid and illegal act ... On...
A military jury sitting at Camp Pendleton, California, sentenced US Marine Cpl. Trent Thomas Friday to a bad-conduct discharge and reduced his rank to private for his role in the 2006 kidnapping and murder of...
Congressman proposes student privacy law change after Virginia Tech shootings
US Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) proposed legislation Wednesday that "will allow schools and universities to share a student's mental health information with their parents or guardians if the student is found to be at risk of suicide,...
'All the Laws But One': Parsing the Military Commissions Bill
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that the overall theme of the "compromise" military commissions bill seems to be the highly-problematic creation of a unique legal regime for a specific group of...
The kickback fraud case against leading class action law firm Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman has hit unexpected delays as five judges from the US District Court for the Central District of California , which covers...
Loi no 2006-396 du 31 mars 2006 pour l'egalité des chances , Journal Officiel de la Republique Francaise, April 2, 2006. CPE excerpt:Article 8I. − Les...
Loi no 2006-396 du 31 mars 2006 pour l'egalité des chances , Journal Officiel de la Republique Francaise, April 2, 2006. CPE excerpt:Article 8I. − Les...
Environmental brief ~ Federal judge rules in favor of fish over farmers
Leading Tuesday's environmental law news, Judge Saundra Armstrong of the US District Court for the Northern District of California has ruled that the US Bureau of Reclamation must leave more water in the Klamath River...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Todd Peppers of Roanoke College, author of the forthcoming book Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of Supreme Court Law Clerks (Stanford University Press, 2006) says that although Justice Samuel Alito's recent hiring...
