Prosecution Document in Support of Appeal against the "Decision on the Prosecution's Application for a Warrant of Arrest against Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir", International Criminal Court prosecutors, July 7, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on Omar al-Bashir.

An Act… to amend An Act To establish a code of law for the District ofColumbia to provide that marriages legally entered into in another jurisdiction by 2 persons of the same sex shall be recognized in the District of Columbia, Council of the District of Columbia, July 7, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper [...]

A Washington, DC law recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states or jurisdictions took effect Tuesday, following Congressional inaction on the matter. The Jury and Marriage Amendment Act of 2009, passed by the Council of the District of Columbia in May by a 12-1 final vote , was subject to Congressional review pursuant to the [...]

The American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary on Tuesday gave US Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor a unanimous "well-qualified" rating . Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee , said that the positive assessment should aid Sotomayor in her confirmation hearings , scheduled to begin next week: The American [...]

Iranian opposition leaders called Tuesday for the release of persons detained for their alleged involvement in protests following last month's disputed presidential election . The request was brought jointly by candidates Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi and former president Mohammad Khatami, who also called for the government immediately to stop the allegedly baseless arrests [...]

A German appeals court on Tuesday found that suspected Nazi Waffen-SS soldier Heinrich Boere is medically fit to stand trial for the 1944 murder of three Dutch civilians. The Cologne Higher Regional Court overturned a lower court decision, which found that a heart condition and other medical problems rendered the 88-year-old Boere unfit to stand [...]

Retired Rear Admiral John Hutson , formerly the US Navy's Judge Advocate General , argued Tuesday that the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) should be repealed rather than reformed. At a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee , Hutson said that although he was an "early and ardent supporter of military commissions," the [...]

The Supreme Court of India on Monday rejected a bid to replace executions by hanging with lethal injections. The suit was brought by rights advocate Ashok Kumar Walia who maintained that hanging executions were cruel and painful . Chief Justice Balakrishan and Justice Sathasivam questioned the allegation that hanging causes more pain than lethal injection, [...]

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday appealed the court's decision not to charge Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with genocide. ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said that the evidentiary standards imposed by the Pre-Trial Chamber in advance of their March indictment was an improper interpretation of Article 58 of the Rome Statute . Moreno-Ocampo [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday affirmed a ruling that a prisoner's First Amendment rights are not violated if he is prohibited from writing material that encourages inmates to participate in work stoppages. Sing Sing prison inmate Prince Pilgrim brought the suit to challenge a New York state prison regulation [...]