Over 10,000 pro-immigrant protesters marched through Paris on Saturday to demonstrate against a proposed immigration bill that would effectively allow border officials to choose who will be admitted into the country. Specifically, the bill creates a "competence and talent" card that would identify "assets for the development and influence of France" possessed by the cardholder. [...]

Notice of appeal by Zacarias Moussaoui of order denying motion by Zacarias Moussaoui to withdraw guilty plea, and judgment, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, May 12, 2006. Read the full text of Moussaoui's notice of appeal . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A spokesman for Thailand's three highest courts Saturday called for the current members of the country's much-maligned Election Commission to resign ahead of new elections ordered earlier this week by the country's Constitutional Court after the results of the April 2 general election were annulled . Press reports quoted Virat Chinvinijkul as saying "Chaos and [...]

UK Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer told the BBC Saturday that the government was considering introducing legislation that would prevent the Human Rights Act – the UK statute that took effect in 2000 implementing the European Convention on Human Rights – from interfering with public safety matters. He cited a recent Probation Service report on the [...]

US v. Microsoft Corporation, Joint Status Report on Microsoft's Compliance with the Final Judgments, US Department of Justice, May 12, 2006 . Read the full text of the filed report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The son of a top Iraqi judge was killed by gunmen Saturday and his body dumped in the mostly Sunni Baghdad neighborhood of Azamiyah. Twenty-two year old Ahmed Midhat al-Mahmoud was himself a lawyer and died along with two bodyguards. His father, Midhat al-Mahmoud, is the Shiite leader of the Higher Judicial Council, the supervisory [...]

September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui has appealed both his life sentence on conspiracy charges and US District Judge Leonie Brinkema's decision to deny his motion to withdraw his guilty plea and grant a new trial. Moussaoui was sentenced to life in prison earlier this month at the conclusion of a two-month sentencing trial . He [...]

A Russian court in Tatarstan Friday sentenced two former Guantanamo Bay detainees and another man to between 11 and 15 years in prison for their involvement in a January 2005 gas pipeline explosion on the Volga River. The three had been acquitted in September 2005, but the Supreme Court dismissed the verdict and ordered a [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked a federal court in Washington for a two-year extension of a Microsoft antitrust order because the software giant has been slow to supply proper technical documentation to the licensees of its communications protocols. The remedial settlement between Microsoft, the DOJ, and nine states, approved in 2002 , [...]

Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi v. George Bush et al., United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Emmett Sullivan, May 12, 2006 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.