The Polish Supreme Court for the first time on Wednesday declared that same-sex partners living together will retain the same legal standing as heterosexual couples in regard to taking over a lease if their romantic partner with whom they were cohabiting should die. The court decision resulted from a request by a lower appeals court [...]
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The military judge presiding over the case of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning , who is accused of leaking confidential documents to WikiLeaks , accepted on Thursday the terms of a partial guilty plea put forward by Manning. The decision by judge Col. Denise R. Lind does not bind the prosecution to accept the terms or [...]
Two well-site supervisors and one former executive of British Petroleum (BP) pleaded not guilty in US federal court on Tuesday to criminal charges stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill . The two supervisors, Robert Kaluza and Donald Vidrine, are each charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of 11 workers during the [...]
US Senator Dianne Feinstein released a report by the Government Accountability Office on Wednesday which asserts that US prisons could safely absorb the 166 detainees currently being held at Guantanamo Bay military prison in the event the facility is closed and the detainees are brought to the US. The report identifies six Department of Defense [...]
Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal ruled Wednesday that the ritual slaughter of animals violates the Polish Constitution. The court’s ruling will bar strictly-followed slaughtering practices by Muslim and Jewish citizens where the animal is not stunned first. The decision conflicts with a 2009 EU law , scheduled to go into effect this January, that regulates slaughtering procedures [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Chibli Mallat of the Yale Law School says that a recent decree issued by Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi is unconstitutional and must be struck down by the judiciary in order to preserve the country’s democratic revolution…
JURIST Columnist Paul Johnson, Anniversary Reader at the University of York, in the first of two pieces on laws pertaining to homosexual acts in Dependencies of the UK, argues that male, homosexual-specific criminal offenses in Guernsey should be modernized to parallel the laws of the UK…
The Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday acquitted former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commanders Ramush Haradinaj , Idriz Balaj, and Laji Brahimaj of all charges. Haradinaj was a commander of the KLA in the Dukagjin area of Western Kosovo; Balaj, a commander of a special operations unit [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday stayed a lower court ruling that would have forced Argentina to pay $1.3 billion to one of its creditors, the investment fund NML Capital Ltd. . The Second Circuit blocked a decision by the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [...]
An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced in absentia seven Coptic Christians and an American preacher to death on charges stemming from an anti-Muslim film, Innocence of Muslims , which sparked violent protests in the Middle East earlier this year. The death sentences are primarily symbolic, as all of the defendants live outside of Egypt and [...]
