The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases. In Carr v. United States , the court heard arguments on whether the failure to register provision of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) can be applied retroactively to underlying offenses occurring before SORNA's enactment. The US Court of Appeals for the [...]

Four Guantanamo Bay detainees have been transferred to Albania and Spain, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday. Three detainees, Tunisia native Aleh Bin Hadi Asasi, Egypt native Sharif Fati Ali al Mishad, and Libya native Abdul Rauf Omar Mohammad Abu al Qusin, were transferred to Albania and the fourth, an unidentified detainee from [...]

Twelve high-ranking Turkish military officers were formally charged on Wednesday for their role in an alleged plot to overthrow Turkey's government. Among those charged were four admirals, two retired colonels, and a retired brigadier general. More than 50 officers were arrested on Monday, including former Navy Commander Adm. Ozden Ornek and former Air Force Commander [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled 9-0 in Maryland v. Shatzer that the Edwards v. Arizona prohibition against interrogation of a suspect who has invoked the Fifth Amendment right to counsel does not require suppression of statements if, after the suspect asks for counsel, there is a break of more than two years before [...]

The Hungarian Parliament passed a bill on Monday that prohibits denials of the Holocaust . The law, which passed 197-1 with 142 members abstaining, makes denying the Holocaust a criminal offense punishable by up to 3 years in prison. The bill was proposed by Attila Mesterházy , the Hungarian Socialist Party candidate for prime minister, [...]

Kurt Opsahl : "Over the past few weeks, Google's new social networking service, Buzz has upset a lot of people over inadvertent disclosures of personal information. The underlying privacy issue is that many users inadvertently published the list of the people they email and chat with most frequently using the Gmail and Gchat services that [...]

An Italian court on Wednesday found three Google executives guilty of privacy violations for allowing a video depicting bullying to be posted on its website. The court in Milan found that the three men, David Carl Drummond, George De Los Reyes, and Peter Fleitcher, violated the privacy rights of a young man with Down's Syndrome [...]

The Irish Special Criminal Court on Wednesday dismissed the case against the only man criminally convicted for a role in the 1998 Omagh bombing , finding that the evidence against Colm Murphy was not strong enough to support the conviction. In 2002, The Special Criminal Court originally sentenced Murphy to 14 years in prison for [...]

Julia Carrano, George Washington University School of Law '10, spent a summer working for Heritage Watch in Cambodia… After my first year of law school, I spent a month in Phnom Penh, Cambodia with Heritage Watch, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving Cambodian cultural heritage sites and fostering sustainable development. As an intern, my job [...]

A Haitian judge on Tuesday announced the forthcoming release of the last two US missionaries out of a group of 10 who were arrested on kidnapping charges following the January 12 earthquake . Eight members of the missionary group affiliated with the Central Valley Baptist Church of Idaho and the New Life Children's Refuge Charity [...]