Common Cause/Georgia, et al., v. NAACP, Eugene Taylor, and Bertha Barrett Young, US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, January 14, 2009 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Herring v. United States, Supreme Court of the United States, January 14, 2009 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Mohammed El Gharani v. George W. Bush, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, January 14, 2009 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The US Supreme Court decided two cases Wednesday. The Court ruled 5-4 in Herring v. United States that evidence seized during a search incident to an arrest does not have to be suppressed when the sole premise for the arrest was information later found to be negligently provided by another law enforcement agency. Chief Justice [...]

The Bush administration engaged in numerous abuses , and the incoming Obama administration should launch a criminal investigation to find out whether any laws were violated, according to a report released Tuesday by US House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) . In the nearly 500-page report, Conyers points to allegations of torture and [...]

The former acting head of the Civil Rights Division at the US Department of Justice (DOJ) routinely discriminated against job applicants and employees who did not share his conservative political views, according to a report released Tuesday. The report, dated July 2, 2008, was prepared by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and the [...]

JURIST Guest Columnists Victor Hansen and Lawrence Friedman of New England School of Law say that although nothing is likely to come of calls for prosecuting President Bush and other administration officials for a variety of controversial actions, Congress should at least take the opportunity to create the mechanisms needed to hold senior leaders accountable [...]

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) prosecutor Justice Hassan B. Jallow on Tuesday appealed the 15-year sentence given to popular Rwandan singer-songwriter Simon Bikindi . Jallow appealed the sentence on the grounds that it was inadequate punishment for "direct and public incitement to commit genocide." The charge is based on a speech Bikindi gave during [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in three cases. In Montejo v. Louisiana , the Court heard arguments on whether an indigent defendant must affirmatively accept appointment of an attorney to invoke Sixth Amendment protection from police-initiated interrogation in the absence of counsel. The petitioner Jesse Jay Montejo was being questioned in connection [...]

Former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld , as well as more than 100 military officers and personnel, have been sued for the wrongful deaths of two former detainees who committed suicide while at Guantanamo Bay . Family members of the deceased filed the complaint last Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of [...]