A coalition of advocacy groups filed a lawsuit in Florida Tuesday claiming that officials in Sarasota County failed to investigate or report various alleged malfunctions with the touch-screen voting machines and are calling for a re-vote in Florida's hotly-contested 13th Congressional District. People for the American Way, Voter Action, the ACLU of Florida and the [...]
Torture and ill-treatment in Russia is regularly used to extract confessions from suspects , according to a report released Wednesday by Amnesty International . Noting that Russia was in violation of its national and international obligations, the human rights group found that Russian police regularly engage in the mistreatment of suspects and that "lawyers are [...]
The US Justice Department has withdrawn its notice of appeal of a federal judge's decision to vacate the conviction of former Enron founder Ken Lay . Lay, convicted in May of fraud and conspiracy charges for providing investors with false and misleading financial information from 1999 up until Enron filed bankruptcy in late 2001, died [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Richard Edwards, Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK, says that the ongoing 'Cash for Honours' investigation into whether benefactors of Britain's ruling Labour Party made loans or donations in order to secure peerages points up the problematic position of the British Attorney General [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law says that while the US federal judiciary has much to be thankful on this Thanksgiving, it and the nation will be even better off if Democrats and Republicans end their partisan wrangling and work together on key matters of judicial policy… There [...]
Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Lebanon, UN Human Rights Council, November 10, 2006; released November 21, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Brief Amicus Curiae of Former Senior Justice Department Officials, Ali-Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri v. Wright, November 20, 2006 . Read the full text of the brief . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The UN Security Council Tuesday approved a proposal for an international tribunal to try suspects in the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri . In a letter from the 15-person body to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Security Council accepted the terms of the tribunal as agreed upon by Annan and [...]
US Marine Lance Cpl. Jerry E. Shumate Jr. was sentenced to a maximum 21-month confinement Tuesday after pleading guilty at court-martial to aggravated assault and conspiracy to obstruct justice in connection with the alleged murder and kidnapping of an unarmed Iraqi civilian in Hamdania on April 26. More serious murder and kidnapping charges were dropped [...]
Audio recordings of proceedings from several US Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) hearings conducted at Guantanamo Bay in 2004 were made public for the first time Tuesday by National Public Radio after being released to lawyers for two Guantanamo detainees acting under provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The detainees, Hadj Boudella and [...]