The UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said Friday that the US has agreed to return  UK resident and Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed to the country as soon as his transfer can be arranged. Mohamed was found by British authorities on Sunday to be healthy enough to return  to the UK after stopping his [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday reversed a lower court ruling that dismissed a suit resulting from Hurricane Katrina brought on behalf of the US against eight flood insurers. The original suit, brought by Realtor Branch Consultants under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act , alleged that [...]

Both the Sri Lankan government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have committed human rights violations by attacking civilians in the Vanni region, according to a report released Thursday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . The report alleges that both sides "appear to be engaged in a perverse competition to demonstrate the [...]

Under the leadership of successive Labour Party governments the UK Parliament has systematically infringed on freedoms and rights of individual British citizens over the past decade, according to a report released Thursday by the Convention of Modern Liberty . The report, compiled by the University College of London Student Human Rights Programme cites governmental actions [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Maine on Wednesday dismissed charges of making false statements against former Republican National Committee regional director James Tobin . Tobin had earlier been convicted in connection with a scheme to jam phone lines to block Democratic voting drives during the 2002 Senate election in [...]

Neel Lalchandani : "Last week, two Pennsylvania judges pled guilty to charges including receiving $2.6 million in bribes from companies running private juvenile detention centers. Although in their guilty plea, they did not admit that they agreed to the bribes in exchange for sentencing teenagers to those facilities, we know that since 2002, the judges [...]

The Moscow Military District Court on Friday acquitted three men suspected of being involved in the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya . The three men, Sergei Khadzhikurbanov and Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov, were released  after a jury on Thursday found the evidence against them insufficient for a conviction . Colonel Pavel Ryaguzov has also been acquitted for charges related to the [...]

Former Yugoslav National Army officer Miroslav Radic on Wednesday sued Serbia for the four years and six months he was detained during his trial by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . Radic was acquitted of war crimes charges by the ICTY in 2007 and is seeking more than $600,000 in compensation for [...]

JURIST Contributing Editor Nancy Rapoport of the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada Las Vegas, says that the housing bailout provisions of the recently announced stimulus package not only do not go far enough to cover mortgage holders in need, but actually reward extreme risk-taking behavior, ironically penalizing homeowners who did the [...]

Timothy Liam Epstein : "The Oliver opinion is a major victory for student athletes who find the process of testing the market increasingly difficult without jeopardizing their amateur status, especially with recognition of third-party beneficiary status to the relationship between the NCAA and a member institution. Surely the NCAA needs work, from the National Letter [...]