The UK Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that Military Families Against the War (MFAW) , a group of families with members who have died in Iraq, is entitled to apply for judicial review of the government's decision not to hold an independent inquiry into why the UK went to war. Reversing a High Court decision [...]

The Bush administration has begun circulating a draft bill to authorize military trials for terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay , according to a report in Wednesday's New York Times. The draft bill, written by acting Assistant Attorney General Steven Bradbury , would allow the use of reliable hearsay evidence and would permit the court to [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Elizabeth Price Foley of Florida International University College of Law says that President Bush's veto of stem cell research legislation is an abuse of his constitutional authority antithetical to the rulings of the US Supreme Court… For the first time in his presidency, President Bush last week exercised raw power to veto [...]

JURIST Contributing Editor Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.) and former Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters, now a professor at South Texas College of Law, says that use of force in Lebanon and other conflict zones is legally governed by fundamental "targeting principles" that must be [...]

United Nations relief coordinator Jan Egeland said Tuesday that Israel had used "disproportionate" force in its military offensive against the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip , but he added that both sides had violated international humanitarian law . Touring Gaza, Egeland expressed dismay over Israel's destruction of Gaza's infrastructure , including a power [...]

Review of CBP Actions Taken to Intercept Suspected Terrorists at US Ports of Entry, Department of Homeland Security, July 25, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A federal judge in Chicago on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Illinois on behalf of state residents against AT&T for allegedly turning over phone records to the National Security Agency (NSA) as part of its domestic surveillance program . US District Judge Matthew Kennelly noted that the plaintiffs, including author Studs [...]

A Chinese court has delayed a verdict for the second time in the trial of Zhao Yan , a former New York Times researcher accused of providing state secrets to foreigners. According to Zhao's lawyers, the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court ordered the delay without giving a reason or setting a new date for [...]

A federal judge in Houston denied a motion Tuesday from former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling that would have overturned his conviction on 19 out of 28 securities and wire fraud and insider trading counts because of insufficient evidence. US District Judge Sim Lake , however, has yet to rule on a defense motion to give [...]

The retrial of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of spreading HIV to more than 400 Libyan patients who were mostly children has been postponed yet again to allow the prosecutor to summon defense witnesses who have not yet appeared in court. Judge Mahmud Huweissa ordered a delay until Aug. 8, but he [...]