The trial of six men accused of war crimes in Kosovo in 1999, including former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic , began at the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Monday. Milutinovic and his five co-defendants – former Serbian Prime Minister Nikola Sainovic , former Yugoslav army chiefs of staff Dragoljub Ojdanic and Nebojsa Pavkovic, [...]

AP is reporting that the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has ruled that a proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage can be placed on the ballot for voter approval, if the amendment is approved by the state legislature. Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage in 2003, when the Supreme [...]

The first federal trial relating to insurance coverage for property damage caused by Hurricane Katrina begins Monday in Gulfport, Mississippi. In the lawsuit against Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company , a Mississippi homeowner is disputing the insurance company's decision not to cover his property damage claim. Nationwide denied the claim because it contends the damage was [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Eric M. Freedman of Hofstra University School of Law says that the US Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling in Hudson v. Michigan is a warning that the Fourth Amendment may be on the verge of a judicial trivialization contrary to the interests of democracy… There is a widely-circulated poster which viewed from a [...]

US Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) , chairman of the House Intelligence Committee , said that the Bush administration may have violated the law by failing to brief the committee on intelligence activities, in a May 18 letter to President Bush that was first disclosed in the New York Times Saturday. In his letter to President [...]

Iraqi Interior Ministry investigations into Iraqi police operations have revealed over 400 incidents of police misconduct, "including the rape of female prisoners, the release of terrorism suspects in exchange for bribes, assassinations of police officers and participation in insurgent bombings", the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. Some 400 authenticated documents covering part of 2005 and [...]

Twenty-five independent and opposition newspapers in Egypt refrained from publishing on Sunday in a pre-planned strike designed to protest the lack of legal protection afforded to journalists as reflected in a draft press law that permits judges to determine whether to imprison journalists for committing media offenses, including alleging that state officials are involved in [...]

The US Department of Homeland Security resumed its repatriation program for illegal immigrants from Mexico Friday with a flight carrying 67 people to Mexico City. This is the third straight summer that the federal government has used the program, which twice daily flies Mexicans caught illegally crossing the US-Mexico border to Mexico City and then [...]

US Department of Justice lawyers said Friday in court documents that Guantanamo Bay detainees may have used paper provided by lawyers to plan the three suicides that occurred at the prison last month. The US filed a request with the US District Court for the District of Columbia asking for permission to review about 1,100 [...]

Mexican leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters in Mexico City Saturday ahead of a mass rally that voting fraud caused his official loss to ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon in the July 2 presidential election, and once again declared he would contest the result . Obrador, leader of the Democratic Revolution Party [...]