Former head of Russia oil giant Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky was transferred Monday from the pre-trial detention facility where he was being held, reportedly to the prison where he will serve his 8-year sentence for tax evasion and fraud. When members of the legal team representing Khodorkovsky's jailed colleague, Platon Lebedev, attempted to speak to their [...]

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JURIST Guest Columnist Eileen Gauna of Southwestern University School of Law. now visiting at the University of New Mexico, says that the Hurricane Katrina disaster is a classic instance of environmental injustice, the longstanding pattern whereby people of color and the poor are exposed to greater environmental risk while receiving fewer environmental amenities… Katrina was [...]

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Assembly Bill No. 450, California Legislature, February 15, 2005, signed into law by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, October 7, 2005 . Read the full text of the bill here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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A source close to the Iraqi Special Tribunal said Sunday that the trial of Saddam Hussein , scheduled for October 19th , might be adjourned after several days of procedural arguments. Hussein's lawyer Khalil Dulaimi filed petitions last month seeking to delay the trial, in addition to a petition challenging the jurisdiction of the Iraqi [...]

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