A court in Mannheim has begun trial proceedings against neo-Nazi Ernst Zundel , a German citizen charged in connection with denying the Holocaust in publications and a website . Holocaust denial constitutes a crime under...
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Federal court refuses to hear appeal of contempt finding against 4 reporters
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Thursday denied a petition for a new hearing brought by four journalists who were held in contempt of court for refusing to reveal...
Supreme Court hears dispute over delinquent student loan collection
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in Lockhart v. US , a case in which it will decide whether the US government can use part of...
Race-based Seattle high school admissions ruling [9th Circuit]
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, October 20, 2005 . Excerpt:We conclude that the District has...
JURIST Guest Columnist Lawrence Douglas, Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College, says that the trial of Saddam Hussein must not only do justice, but show that justice is done, and wonders whether the relatively-inexperienced jurists of...
Canadian court files should be kept off Internet, judicial committee says
A Canadian judicial advisory committee has recommended that detailed court filings should not be available for viewing via the Internet, despite the fact that they are considered "public documents." The committee, comprised of judges on the Canadian Judicial Council...
Torture, 'egregious' rights abuses occurring in North Korea, UN report shows
Torture, absence of the rule of law, violence against women and political persecution are among the laundry list of "egregious" human rights violations occurring in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , according to a new report from...
Judge rules Visa, MasterCard need not notify consumers of data theft
A California judge ruled Friday that credit card companies Visa and MasterCard do not have to notify individual consumers whose account data was stolen by an as-yet-unknown hacker in a mass cybertheft disclosed by MasterCard...
JURIST Guest Columnist Craig Bradley, a former law clerk to the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, says that Rehnquist's thirty-three year legal legacy is complex and must be examined from multiple perspectives... No one person can adequately assess Chief Justice...
States brief ~ UT high court to hear case on child visitation if biological parent objects
Leading Monday's states brief, the Utah Supreme Court will hear oral arguments tomorrow on whether former lesbian Keri Lynn is legally entitled to a parental relationship with a child born to a former girlfriend, when the child's...
