Jaafar Moussawai , chief prosecutor in the trial of Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity in Dujail, said Monday that an appeals panel would likely rule on his verdict and sentence in mid-January 2007, setting the stage for his possible execution in mid-February. His comments echoed some made Sunday by Iraqi High Tribunal chief investigative [...]

Garrett v. City of Escondido, American Civil Liberties Union, November 3, 2006 . Read the full text of the complaint . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Lawyers for a southern California Indian tribe argued before the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Monday that the tribe is exempt from the National Labor Relations Act on grounds of tribal sovereignty. The San Manuel tribe is appealing a 2004 ruling which asserted National Labor Relations Board jurisdiction over tribal businesses . If the [...]

US District Judge James Munley Monday extended a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of two Hazleton, Pennsylvania immigration laws for 120 days so that both sides can prepare for trial on their validity. The temporary restraining order was initially set to expire on November 14. Munley said that he would prefer that the trial commence [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Wallace v. Chicago Police Officers , 05-1240, a case where a man illegally arrested is seeking to sue the police officers responsible for his arrest. Andre Wallace was arrested without probable cause in 1994, convicted, and released from prison in 2002 after an Illinois court reversed [...]

Mohammad Munaf, a US citizen convicted and sentenced to death by an Iraqi judge, asked the US Supreme Court Monday to delay his transfer to Iraqi custody while US courts consider his case. Munaf was arrested in Romania in 2005 on kidnapping charges for allegedly kidnapping and detaining three Romanian journalists for 55 days in [...]

The War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina Monday began the trial of Momcilo Mandic , a former interior minister and then justice minister in the Bosnian Serb government of Radovan Karadzic from 1992-95. Mandic pleaded not guilty in July to charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, embezzlement and fraud. Mandic [...]

Several more European leaders voiced concern Monday over the death sentence handed down over the weekend for Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants in the Dujail crimes against humanity case . In a London press conference, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said the Iraqi High Tribunal's guilty verdict served as a reminder of the brutality of [...]

An Italian court on Monday convicted Egyptian Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed for his role in the 2004 Madrid train bombings , sentencing him to ten years in prison. Ahmed's trial began earlier this year and marks the first conviction for any suspects in the bombings, which killed 191 people and injured almost 2000 more. Prosecutors [...]

Iraqi authorities Monday began the delicate process of lifting the curfew imposed in Baghdad and two other provinces over the weekend in anticipation of possible violence following Sunday's announcement of the Dujail trial verdict against ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein . Civilians are now allowed to go into the streets, but a traffic ban in [...]