Federal prosecutors have accused lawyers for alleged terrorist Jose Padilla of violating a protective order that bars distribution of sensitive documents after one of the lawyers admitted to leaking classified government wiretap transcripts to the New York Times, which lead to a January 4 report in the newspaper. The defense team has said the leak [...]

The UK Council of Circuit Judges which represents British judges in England and Wales has dismissed British government proposals designed to increase rape convictions in the country, which have hit a record low . The proposals advanced last spring include efforts to help jurors understand rape victims, such as using expert witnesses to dispel rape [...]

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) Tuesday denied a request by Uruguay to force Argentina to put a stop to protestors blocking major roads and bridges between the two nations in an effort to halt Uruguay's construction of two paper mills along the river that separates the states . The court, voting 14-1, ruled that [...]

A coalition of businesses and environmental groups on Monday called for federal legislation to limit emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. In a letter to President Bush a day before his State of the Union Address , the US Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) advocated a "cap and trade" system , in which companies [...]

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Wendy J. Keefer, former senior counsel and chief of staff in the US Department of Justice Office of Legal Policy now teaching national security law at Charleston School of Law and practising with Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, says that lawmakers, critics and the public at large should consider warrantless electronic surveillance and [...]

The city council of Farmers Branch, Texas Monday unanimously approved revisions to a city ordinance requiring apartment renters to show proof of US residency and penalizing landlords who rent to illegal immigrants . The original ordinance was set to take effect earlier this month, but a judge issued a temporary restraining order after the Dallas [...]

The head of Catholic bishops in Italy Monday denounced a plan by the Italian government to give same-sex couples many of the rights that heterosexual couples enjoy. Cardinal Camillo Ruini spoke to a conference of Italian bishops and said same-sex unions went against the basic purpose of marriage – to produce children. The proposed legislation [...]

US Army Col. Michael Steele has been formally reprimanded for giving improper orders to soldiers in Iraq, leading to the deaths of four unarmed Iraqi civilians near Samarra last May, according to recent reports by two US Defense Department officials. Military documents indicate that Steele, a subject of the book and movie Black Hawk Down [...]

Kahle v. Gonzalez, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, January 22, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Initial Response to Representative Mark Foley's E-mails to a Former Page, US Department of Justice, January 22, 2006 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.