The US military has charged a Guantanamo Bay detainee with attempted murder and intentionally causing serious bodily harm, the Defense Department said Thursday. Mohammed Jawad , an Afghan national, allegedly threw a grenade at two US soldiers and an interpreter in their vehicle on December 17, 2002 in Kabul. Jawad is the fourth Guantanamo detainee [...]
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JURIST Contributing Editor Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.) and former Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters, now a professor at South Texas College of Law, says that the pattern of executive branch decision making in the aftermath of the terror attacks of September 11th suggests that [...]
The US Senate Judiciary Committee approved a 29 percent pay raise for all federal judges Thursday by a margin of 10-7. If passed by Congress, the Federal Judicial Salary Restoration Act of 2007 would mark the first significant raise federal judges have received since 1991. The bill stops judicial pay from being set at the [...]
US District Judge Paul Huck ruled Thursday that former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega will remain in the US until all appeals relating to an extradition request by France have been exhausted. Earlier this month, Huck denied Noriega's request to block his extradition to France, but on Thursday granted the defense's motion to stay Noriega's extradition [...]
Elouise Pepion Cobell, et al., v. Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary of the Interior, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, January 30, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Thousands of lawyers held rallies across Pakistan on Thursday, protesting the ouster of Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry and other superior court judges last November when Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule and suspended the country's constitution. The protests followed a statement by Chaudhry Wednesday in which he called Musharraf an "extremist" and [...]
Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi said Thursday that he is opposed to a proposed law that would allow most members of Saddam Hussein's defunct Baath Party to be reinstated to public life. Al-Hashemi criticized the Accountability and Justice Law , passed by the Iraqi parliament earlier this month and later endorsed by Prime Minister Nouri [...]
The US Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the execution of Alabama death row inmate James Harvey Callahan "pending the timely filing and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari." Callahan had been scheduled to be executed at 6 PM CST on Thursday. The stay will terminate automatically if Callahan's petition for certiorari is [...]
US President George W. Bush Thursday signed a 15-day extension to the temporary Protect America Act , carrying it beyond its February 1 expiration date. The Protect Act, enacted as a stopgap while Congress worked on long-term legislation to "modernize" the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) , currently allows the US government to eavesdrop [...]
The Russian Supreme Court Thursday rejected an appeal to overturn a life sentence for former Yukos security chief Alexei Pichugin for his involvement in organizing a series of contract killings. Pichugin was convicted by the Moscow City Court in August 2007 for organizing three murders and four attempted murders. Pichugin originally received a 24-year sentence [...]
