Honduran President Manuel Zelaya rejected a Supreme Court decision Thursday that called for the reinstatement of a military general whom Zelaya fired Wednesday. Zelaya's decision comes amidst a controversy over a referendum on constitutional change scheduled for Sunday at which the president hopes to gain supporters for drafting a new constitition. Zelaya fired General Romeo [...]

A judge in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Thursday set the corruption trial of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich for June 3, 2010. Lawyers for two aids indicted with Blagojevich , Alonzo Monk and John Harris, indicated that their clients may agree to plea deals . Blagojevich's attorneys said [...]

JURIST Guest Columnists Olga Martin-Ortega of the Centre on Human Rights in Conflict, University of East London (UK), and Jordi Palou-Loverdos, a lawyer who has represented Rwandan, Congolese and Spanish victims of crimes against humanity before the Spanish courts, say that preserving Spain's broad universal jurisdiction law from growing political pressure to narrow it is [...]

Self-exiled Russian business tycoon Boris Berezovsky was found guilty of fraud in absentia Thursday by a Moscow regional court. The court found that Berezovsky and his business associate Yuli Dubov embezzled $4.5 million from their LogoVAZ car dealership. The charges , filed last November under the Russian Criminal Code , stem from a deal arranged [...]

Billionaire financier Allen Stanford pleaded not guilty Thursday to 21 charges of fraud, conspiracy, and obstruction in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas but remained in prison overnight. Prosecutors opposed Stanford's release by filing a memorandum in support of detention Thursday that argues Stanford would pose a flight risk if freed [...]

The Russian Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the retrial of three men acquitted of involvement in the 2006 shooting death of journalist Anna Politkovskaya . The court vacated the acquittals of Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, Dzhabrail Makhmudov, and Ibragim Makhmudov after prosecutors argued the trial judge made procedural errors. A lawyer observing the proceedings said the court's [...]

Safford Unified School District # 1, et al. v. Redding, US Supreme Court, June 25, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on Fourth Amendment issues.

Atlantic Sounding v. Townsend, US Supreme Court, June 25, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on the Jones Act.

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