The US Office of Special Counsel officially recommended Monday that General Services Administration (GSA) Administrator Lurita Doan "be disciplined to the fullest extent" for blatant disregard of the 1939 Hatch Act . In a letter to President George W. Bush, Special Counsel Scott Bloch said that by asking political appointees at a GSA meeting in [...]

Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000: Trafficking in Persons Report 2007, US Department of State, June 12, 2007 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Human Rights in China (HRIC) said Monday that the state secrets system in China gives the government virtually complete power to halt the free flow of information, "undermining healthy governance and rule of law." The group released State Secrets: China's Legal Labyrinth , an extensive 280 page report that includes English translations of many laws [...]

A US Nuremberg trials prosecutor denounced the US military commissions at Guantanamo Bay in an interview with Reuters published Monday. Henry King Jr. , now in his 80s but still a professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, said the commissions violated the principles of fairness established during the trials of Nazi leaders [...]

The trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor will continue as scheduled, despite Taylor's boycott of the trial's opening last week, according to Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) chief prosecutor Stephen Rapp Monday. Taylor, who is being tried in front of the UN-backed court for crimes against humanity and violations of international humanitarian law, [...]

Google Monday announced a new data retention policy, saying that its servers will retain personally identifiable information for 18 months and not its previous policy of 18 to 24 months. Google's policy revision came in response to an announcement by the European Commission in May that the EU's independent advisory panel would investigate Google to [...]

The Prosecutor v. Milan Martic, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, June 12, 2007 . Read the full text of the judgment . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Iranian judiciary spokesperson Alireza Jamshidi said Tuesday that an Iranian judge will decide whether to proceed with indictments against three Iranian-Americans early next week, after the conclusion of preliminary investigations. Iran has formally charged Dr. Haleh Esfandiari for an alleged plot "against the sovereignty of the country," and charged Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh and Radio Farda [...]

The Supreme Court of Pakistan ruled Monday that it has jurisdiction over legal disputes involving the suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and admitted Chaudhry's petition challenging the legality of his March 9 suspension by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. The ruling, considered a victory for Chaudhry, frustrates the efforts of government lawyers, who had [...]

Malta's Justice and Home Affairs Minister Tonio Borg urged his EU counterparts to help alleviate the influx of illegal immigrants to Malta Tuesday, as the EU's Justice and Home Affairs Council began a two-day meeting in Luxembourg to discuss EU policy on illegal immigration and other matters within the Council's portfolio. Borg's plea follows a [...]