A presidential commission on Thursday said US intelligence agencies know "disturbingly little" about threats posed by the nation's most dangerous adversaries, and the commission recommended more than 70 changes that President Bush can make to improve intelligence. The WMD...
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An appeals court in Afghanistan has reduced the sentences of three US citizens who had been convicted of torturing Afghans and running a private jail in Kabul. The three men, Jonathan Idema , Brent Bennett and Edward Caraballo,...
Israel's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the country can recognize non-Orthodox conversions to Judaism not performed in Israel, a decision which challenges the Orthodox monopoly over Israili religious affairs. Up to this time, converts who sought Israeli...
Myanmar's military junta announced Thursday that it has adjourned talks to draw up a new democratic constitution for the country. Military officials blamed high temperatures and the upcoming monsoon season for the closing of the National Convention, suggesting the...
A military court in Germany Thursday found US Army Captain Rogelio "Roger" Maynulet guilty of assault with intent to commit voluntary manslaughter in connection with the shooting death of an Iraqi civilian last year, a lesser...
In what is expected to be the very last high court appeal by the parents of Terri Schiavo , the US Supreme Court late Wednesday rejected another petition to have Schiavo's feeding tube...
Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Thursday, March 31.The US Senate and US House are in recess until April 4.The American Society of International Law is hosting a...
Mahmoad Abdah, et al. v. Bush, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Henry Kennedy, March 29, 2005 [ordering the military to give detainees' lawyers 30 days' notice before transferring a detainee from Guantanamo Bay to...
Schiavo, et al. v. Schiavo, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, March 30, 2005 [order denying Bob and Mary Schindler's request for a new hearing en banc on whether a feeding tube for their brain-damaged daughter Terri...
Rhines v. Weber, Supreme Court of the United States, March 30, 2005 [ruling that a federal district court has discretion to stay (rather than being compelled to dismiss) a habeas corpus petition which includes exhausted and unexhausted claims, in order...
