JURIST Guest Columnist Mark Brown, holder of the Newton D. Baker/Baker and Hostetler Chair at Capital University School of Law, says that forcing unsuccessful 2004 presidential candidate Ralph Nader to pay after-the-fact for a ballot contest instigated against him in Pennsylvania when his campaign was found to have committed no wrongdoing is constitutionally dubious… The [...]

Murphy v. IRS, US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, August 23, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Deliberate destruction or "collateral damage"? Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure, Amnesty International, August 23, 2006 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The Tashkent City Court in Uzbekistan Wednesday ordered the closure of another US nongovernmental organization (NGO) operating in the country, stating the group's failure to provide accurate information about its activities as one of the chief reasons. Crosslink Development International is the most recent activist group forced to close its offices in Uzbekistan as part [...]

US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Wednesday that US Border Patrol officials are now detaining nearly all non-Mexican illegal immigrants caught crossing the US-Mexico border for an average of 21 days before releasing them to their home countries. Fulfilling a promise made by DHS leaders last fall, US officials detained 99 percent of non-Mexican [...]

A High Court judge in London on Wednesday granted requests by Scotland Yard to extend the detentions of 9 of 11 uncharged suspects in custody in connection with an alleged airline bombing plot said to have been foiled by police. Eight suspects had their detentions extended to August 30, the first time a British court [...]

Telecom giant AT&T sued 25 "John Doe" defendants in US federal court on Wednesday, alleging that the defendants had posed as customers to obtain personal customer information for use in domestic and legal disputes. The AT&T complaint alleges that the so-called "data brokers" fraudulently obtained data on about 2,500 customers, and if the lawsuit leads [...]

Australian detainee David Hicks has been kept in solitary confinement at Guantanamo Bay for about five months and his health is deteriorating, Hicks' US military lawyer Major Michael Mori said Wednesday. Mori insisted that Hicks is among the best-behaved inmates at the US military prison and there was no good reason for him to be [...]

Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz on Tuesday sent Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert a memo detailing the pros and cons of all possible legal methods the government may use to investigate the country's conduct in the Middle East conflict . The memo, which was not released to the press, lists at least five options, the [...]

The kidnappers of two Fox News journalists who were abducted in Gaza City on August 14 have demanded that the US release "Muslims detained in American prisons" within 72 hours in exchange for the safe release of the journalists. The self-named "Holy Jihad Brigades" faxed their demand to news stations, and sent a video of [...]