Tamara Taraciuk Broner : "Mexican President Felipe Calderón has relied heavily on the armed forces to fight drug-related violence and organized crime. The need to improve public security is clear. Mexico is facing violent turf battles among powerful drug cartels, an influx of sophisticated weapons, and a large number of kidnappings and executions in several [...]

New York lawyer Mark Dreier pleaded guilty Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to fraud charges for perpetrating a scheme that cost investors more than $400 million. Appearing before Judge Jed Rakoff, Dreier pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud, securities fraud, wire [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says the claimed "suicide" in a Libyan prison of al-Qaeda operative Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi is too convenient for too many people who have besmirched American honor in a perversion of rule of law that came from panic and improvisation….. Little noted thusfar [...]

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia on Monday denied a second request for release on bail by former Khmer Rouge official Ieng Thirith . Ieng was Minister of Social Action in the Democratic Kampuchea regime, and is currently under investigation for charges of crimes against humanity. In Novermber 2007, investigating judges ordered her [...]

Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga , the lower house of the Afghan parliament, on Monday demanded that restrictions be placed on foreign forces to avoid further civilian casualties before recessing in protest of recent air strikes. Wolesi Jirga secretary Abdul Sattar Khawaasi said that parliament has given the government one week to come up with a plan [...]

Lawsuit by the Sami People of Sweden against the Swedish government, Gallivare District Court, May 11, 2009 . Read the full text of the complaint . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The Swedish Sami Association (SSR) on Monday brought a lawsuit against the Swedish government claiming that the state is violating the hunting rights of the indigenous Sami people, also known as Lapps. The SSR filed the lawsuit in the Gallivare District Court seeking to resolve a dispute over mountainous land in northern Sweden. Swedish law [...]

US journalist Roxana Saberi was released from an Iranian prison Monday after an Iranian court of appeals on Sunday reduced her eight-year sentence for espionage to two years and then suspended the sentence. According to statements from Saberi's lawyer, the court determined that the espionage charge was not valid since the US is not an [...]

Lilian S. Ileto, et al. v. Glock Inc., et al., US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, May 11, 2009 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday that it is reversing Bush administration antitrust policies that made it difficult to act against large companies that harm the interests of smaller companies. In a speech before the Center for American Progress , Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division Christine Varney said that the DOJ [...]