The Court of Appeal division of the Supreme Court of Victoria in Australia on Friday quashed the conviction of Joseph Terrence "Jihad Jack" Thomas , the first Australian jailed under the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism Act 2002 . The court ruled that authorities interviewed Thomas against his will and without access to a [...]
Human Rights Watch on Friday said that "the Iraqi High Tribunal is presently incapable of fairly and effectively trying a genocide case in accordance with international standards and current international criminal law" and called on the tribunal to "improve its practices" during Saddam Hussein's second trial, scheduled to begin Monday . HRW based its statement [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that even in the wake of a federal court injunction, meaningful restrictions on the executive's domestic surveillance program require that both the judiciary and the legislative branches of government assert themselves against presidential overreaching… If the United States is still celebrating [...]
JURIST Special Guest Columnist H.A. Hellyer of the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick, UK, says that if Britain must now fight "enemies within" in its escalated war on terror, it should be sure to fight the right ones, lest it hand victory to the very forces it seeks to defeat… After [...]
US Marines involved in the death of 24 civilians in Haditha last November concealed and destroyed evidence relating to the incident, the New York Times reported Friday. According to top military officials speaking to the Times who have been briefed on an investigation completed last month by US Army Major General Eldon Bargewell , the [...]
US v. Philip Morris, United States District Court for the District of Columbia Circuit, August 17, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Matthew Lee v. Ruth Ann Minner, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, August 16, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Thursday sided with several states and the federal government when it found that energy company Cinergy Corp. should have gone through a federal permit process prior to increasing their pollutant output after modernizing their facilities. The case was originally filed under the Clinton administration in [...]
US Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Thursday that the confessions of three Rwandan rebels charged with killing two American tourists in Uganda were achieved through torture and coercion and ruled that the confessions are inadmissible in court. The rebels, who according to experts displayed [...]
A federal judge ruled Thursday that the tobacco industry is liable for civil racketeering charges filed against the industry by the DOJ in 1999. Federal prosecutors filed suit under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) , claiming that tobacco companies conspired to mislead the public about the dangers of smoking. During the case, [...]