The Supreme Court of Israel on Thursday upheld the rape conviction of former Israeli president Moshe Katsav . The court rejected Katsav’s appeal of his conviction for rape, sexual abuse and sexual harassment, finding that he misused his position as president, from which he was forced to resign after the allegations were made public. The [...]
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Mexican security forces have committed widespread rights abuses , such as torture and forced disappearances, in combating organized crime, according to a report released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . The report, “Neither Rights Nor Security,” details HRW’s investigation into the actions of the Mexican military and police forces in confronting drug cartels and [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Wednesday denied a petition for rehearing regarding its unanimous decision to vacate a district court ruling that the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy (DADT) was a violation of service members’ constitutional rights. The court had overturned the lower court’s ruling at the request of lawyers for [...]
The Australian Senate on Thursday passed the Tobacco Plain Packaging Bill 2011 which requires that cigarettes be sold in generic olive green packages, without brands or logos. The packages will also have warnings of the potential health risks of smoking. Australia is the first country in the world to pass a law such as this. [...]
Alleged al Qaeda senior leader Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri made his first court appearance Wednesday, his first public appearance since he was captured in Dubai in 2002. Nashiri is charged with war crimes under the Military Commission Act of 2009 relating to the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 which killed 17 men, the bombing [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, argues that the Supreme Court should use US v. Jones as an opportunity to reaffirm Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure, particularly in light of technological advances…
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases on preemption. In National Meat Association v. Harris , the court considered where the federal regime of slaughterhouse regulation as established by the Federal Meat Inspection Act (“FMIA”) , as amended by the Wholesome Meat Act of 1967 and the Humane Methods of Slaughter [...]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called Wednesday for universal accession to the Protocol II on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices (Protocol II) . The comments came as part of the secretary’s message to the 13th Annual Conference on Protocol II. Congratulating the 97 States already party to Protocol [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Daniel Joyner of the University of Alabama School of Law says the IAEA went outside of its legal mandate with its latest report on Iran, a move that has been viewed by some states as indicating the IAEA’s shift from a technical body to a politicized one…
Sixteen Latin American, Caribbean and South American governments have filed supporting briefs in a lawsuit filed last week by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) challenging the South Carolina’s newly adopted immigration law . The briefs contend that the new law will “impede effective and consistent diplomatic relations,” and encourage “an imminent threat of state-sanctioned [...]
