Three Indonesian Islamic militants sentenced to death for their roles in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings filed a new appeal Wednesday, after withdrawing an earlier appeal this week following refusal of the Cilacap district court to grant a change of venue and transport the militants to a district court in Bali. According to defense lawyers, [...]

Hollinger Inc. , the Canadian holding company with an interest in former newspaper publisher Hollinger International , has agreed to pay the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) $21.3 million to settle claims that from 1999 to 2003 it violated securities law by failing to disclose to investors payments and other transactions that benefited the [...]

The Maryland General Assembly has passed legislation to establish the Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment, which would study the implementation and execution of the death penalty in that state. The state House approved HB 1111 by a 89-48 vote on Monday, and the Senate later approved SB 614 by a 32-15 vote. The Commission will [...]

Sharon Bradford Franklin : "The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Munaf v. Geren and Geren v. Omar, in which two American citizens being detained by U.S. authorities in Iraq seek judicial review of their detentions through habeas corpus. The United States government argues that the American military personnel detaining Mr. Munaf and Mr. [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Philip Alston Tuesday urged Guatemalan lawmakers not to override a presidential veto of a bill that would restore the country's death penalty in a way he said would be contrary to international human rights law. Alston said: This law can only be intended as an end-run [...]

German prosecutors Tuesday charged the chair of the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) with libel and inciting racial hatred for comments he made about a German soccer player. Udo Voigt and two other party officials allegedly published a pamphlet and circulated online messages before the 2006 World Cup saying that soccer player Patrick Owomoyela should [...]

US President W. George Bush on Tuesday issued presidential pardons to 15 people convicted of crimes that ranged from drug offenses to wire fraud to violations of fish and wildlife regulations. He also commuted the sentence of a woman convicted of conspiracy to distribute crack-cocaine. Bush has issued a total of 157 pardons in his [...]

The Bush administration has asked Congress to shield Libya from a measure in the newly-passed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 that would allow victims of state-sponsored terrorism to sue for that country's assets held in the US. The military spending law, signed by US President George W. Bush in January with bipartisan [...]

Air Transport Association of America, Inc., v. Andrew Cuomo, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, March 25, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Tuesday overturned a New York law requiring airlines to provide passengers on seriously delayed flights with basic amenities, ventilation, and waste removal, holding that federal law preempts state airline regulation. Last August, New York became the first state to pass an Airline Passenger Bill of [...]