Members of the Ohio Senate voted 21-12 Tuesday to override outgoing Ohio Governor Robert Taft's veto of a revised concealed-carry gun law that Taft claimed would preempt local gun-related legislation in some 80 Ohio communities. The House approved an override last week, making this the first time since 1977 that the Ohio legislature has successfully [...]

Israel's Supreme Court Tuesday unanimously overturned a law barring Palestinians from claiming compensation from the Israeli state in respect of damages suffered in "conflict zones" in Gaza and the West Bank. The so-called Intifada law had been challenged by a coalition of nine human rights groups led by the Israeli-Arab rights organization Adalah . The [...]

Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling is expected to report to a minimum security federal prison in Waseca, Minnesota to begin a 24-year sentence for fraud, conspiracy and insider trading after a three-judge panel of the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled late Tuesday against his application for bail pending appeal of his sentence. Skilling [...]

The US Department of Justice filed an appeal Tuesday against a November 28 ruling by US District Judge James Robertson declaring that "the Treasury Department’s failure to design and issue paper currency that is readily distinguishable to blind and visually impaired individuals violates section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act." Section 504 provides that no disabled [...]

JURIST Contributing Editor Nancy Rapoport of the University of Houston Law Center says that new instructions to federal prosecutors not to demand privileged documents as a means of inducing corporate co-operation with investigations may help preserve useful corporate structures while recognizing that threats of wholesale corporate prosecutions may not prevent wrongdoing by corporate officers… Deputy [...]

Principles of Federal Prosecution of Business Organizations, US Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, December 12, 2006. Read the full text of the memorandum . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The Queen on the application of Gentle and Clarke v. The Prime Minister et al., Court of Appeal, Mr. Justice Collins, December 12, 2006 . Read the full text of the judgment. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Members of Thailand's National People's Assembly (NPA) will meet next week to select a preliminary list of NPA members who will participate on a committee to draft a new constitution, but a senior Thai military official said Tuesday that only one or two military officers would be included in the latter group. One hundred of [...]

The Lebanese cabinet Tuesday sent the country's National Assembly a draft plan to establish a UN-supported international tribunal to try suspects accused of assassinating former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005. The cabinet approved the draft late last month despite resignations by all six of its pro-Syrian members. On Saturday, Lebanese President Emile Lahoud [...]

US Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) announced Tuesday that they have sent the FBI a letter signed by thirty-three members of Congress asking it to release information from its probe into the 2001 anthrax attacks , in which letters containing anthrax spores were sent to senators and news organizations, leading to [...]