The Argentine Supreme Court on Tuesday announced that it would rule on the constitutionality of two articles of the Civil Code prohibiting same-sex marriage . The announcement comes one day after National Court Judge Marta Gomez Alsina issued an injunction halting the country's first legal gay marriage, set for Tuesday in the capital city of [...]

Former US soldier Steven Green on Monday challenged the law used to convict him in civilian court for his role in the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family in Mahmudiya. Green filed an appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit seeking to overturn [...]

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has filed a motion made public Monday, challenging the legitimacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . Karadzic claims that the UN Security Council overstepped its powers when it created the court in 1993: All over the world, the establishment of regular courts is only [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday and Tuesday the transfer of four detainees from Guantanamo Bay to three European countries, as the detainee population at the detention facility continues to be reduced. Two of the former detainees, Tunisian natives Adel Ben Mabrouk and Mohamed Riadh Ben Nasri, were transferred to Italy and will [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Virginia Keyder, currently teaching European Union law at Bogazici University and Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey, says that the Lisbon Treaty on European Union reform that has just entered into force is much more than meets the eye, especially as regards its implications for fundamental rights and EU military policy… Now that [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday reversed a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit that had affirmed a death sentence for a veteran convicted of murder who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) . In Porter v. McCollum , George Porter, a decorated Korean War veteran, had argued that he [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that several contractors responsible for dredging the Mississippi River, which some claim exacerbated damage from Hurricane Katrina , cannot be held liable since the contractors were acting under Congress' express authorization. The plaintiffs' suit claimed that dredging in the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in two cases. In Graham County Soil & Water Conservation Dist. v. United States ex rel. Wilson , the Court heard arguments on the scope of the public disclosure jurisdictional bar of the False Claims Act, to determine if the Act allows federal jurisdiction in suits based [...]

The trial of alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk began in Germany on Monday. It marks the first time a Nazi war crimes trial will focus on a low-ranking foreigner rather than a commander. The Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk faces 27,900 accessory accounts stemming from his alleged involvement as a guard at Sobibor concentration camp. It is [...]

China is considering lifting a 20-year-old ban that keeps foreigners with HIV/AIDS from entering the country, according to a China Daily report Monday. Vice-Minister of Health Huang Jiefu said that he hopes the ban will be lifted before the upcoming Shanghai Expo in May, which is expected to draw four million tourists. China's Ministry of [...]