Following up on a report Thursday in JURIST's Paper Chase, Serbian Minister for Human Rights Rasim Ljajic said Friday that Serbian TV's broadcast of a disturbing video of six Bosnian Muslim youths being...
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A Miami federal judge has ruled that Florida violated the terms of a 1991 agreement to reduce phosphorus levels in the Everglades. The US Supreme Court previously remanded the case after hearing an appeal [JURIST...
Jurors in the trial of former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy told US District Court Judge Karon Bowdre in a note Friday that they were deadlocked with regard to all charges . Scrushy, who has...
Eight men appeared in a South African court Friday to face charges of breaking the country's anti-mercenary laws, enforced under the Foreign Military Assistance Act . The South African men were freed in May, along with 53 other suspected...
A Syrian man wanted in connection with the Madrid train bombings appeared in a British court on Friday as Spain requested his extradition to face charges. Moutaz Almallah Dabas was arrested in England last month, accused...
Army Brig. Gen. Jay Hood, senior military commander of the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, voiced frustration Thursday at press and rights group portrayals of abuse at the facility. Hood's comments follow a since-retracted Newsweek article [official website; JURIST...
Jurors began deliberations Thursday in the retrial of former Tyco International Ltd. top executives L. Dennis Kozlowski and Mark Swartz. The first proceeding ended in a mistrial last April because of outside pressure...
Republican insiders claim that the Bush administration is preparing to send dozens of new judicial nominations to the Senate for confirmation in an effort to test the bipartisan filibuster deal struck last week [JURIST report; NRO...
Voters in Switzerland will decide in a referendum set for Sunday June 5 whether gay couples should have the right to register as partners and have legal rights similar to as married couples. A recent poll says 67 percent...
Maverick Andrei Illarionov , a top economic advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Thursday that the recent conviction of oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky for fraud and tax evasion had caused Russia major harm and...
