National Association of Manufacturers v. Taylor, et al., US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, September 8, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007.
Beschlussempfehlung und Bericht des Rechtaussschusses…Entwurf eines Zweiten Gesetzes zur Anderung des Gesetzes zur Aurfhebung nationalsozialistizcher unrechtsurteile in der strafrechtsplflege, German Bundestag, September 8, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here.
Disability Advocates, Inc. v. Paterson, et al., US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, September 8, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Entwurf eines Gesetzes zur Umsetzung der Grundgesetzänderungen für dieRatifizierung des Vertrags von Lissabon (Draft law implementing the Basic Law, amendments to the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon), German Bundestag, September 8, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on the Lisbon Treaty.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Sunday reiterated calls for the UN to establish an international tribunal to investigate and try suspects accused in the August 19 bombing of the foreign and finance ministries that left close to 100 dead. Meeting with the US envoy in Iraq, al-Maliki also described the worsening situation between Iraq [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that outside observers purporting to assess adherence to the "rule of law" in Iraq should pay less attention to compliance or non-compliance with formally enacted codes, and more to social practice… There is a conventional wisdom concerning law and social [...]
A UK jury found three men guilty of conspiracy to murder after plotting to blow up transatlantic flights using liquid explosives . The three men, Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar, and Tanvid Hussain, were part of a larger plot allegedly organized by British national Rashid Rauf, arrested in Pakistan. Four other suspects were not convicted [...]
Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen announced Monday that while he hoped no further potential war criminals would be tried in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia , he would continue to support the court financially should international backers drop out. Sen, who has led the country for the past twenty years, said he [...]
The UK Home Office has released a top terrorism suspect from a control order subjecting him to virtual house arrest because it did not want to reveal secret evidence, according to media reports Monday. Home Secretary Alan Johnson sent a letter to the man of Libyan and British nationality, know only as AF, at the [...]
Joshua Katz : "The Libertarian Party of Connecticut joined with the state's Green Party to file a lawsuit in federal court challenging the state's Citizens' Election Program. We maintained that this program was unconstitutional in that it imposed asymmetrical burdens on minor parties vis-a-vis the Republican and Democratic parties in elections within the state. While [...]