Lawyers from several of the top US wireless telephone providers testified Friday at a hearing before the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee of the US House Energy and Commerce Committee that they would support legislation to ban pretexting , the practice whereby an individual poses as another customer to obtain his or her personal phone information. [...]
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The US Congress sent its final version of the military commissions bill to President Bush late Friday after the House voted 250-170 to approve the Senate's version of the legislation . The House of Representatives had approved its own version of the bill Wednesday by a vote of 253-168 , but House leaders decided to [...]
Military Commissions Act of 2006 , passed by the US Senate September 28, 2006 and by the US House of Representatives September 29, 2006. Read the full text of the legislation . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Sandra Cote-Whitacre et al. v. Department of Public Health et al., Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk County Superior Court, September 29, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The major political parties in Serbia have reached an agreement on the text of a draft constitution after weeks of negotiations, Local Government and Administration Minister Zoran Loncar said Friday. Although parliament is scheduled to consider the document on Saturday, few details about it have been made public. Earlier this month, the National Assembly of [...]
In his first major speech to parliament since taking office last week, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe followed through on a promise to make amending the country's pacifist constitution a priority. The constitution , effectively imposed on Japan after World War II by the United States, forbids in Aricle 9 "the threat or use of [...]
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told a gathering of legal scholars Friday that the Constitution "provides the courts with relatively few tools" to review presidential decisions about the military and foreign policy in wartime and cautioned judges against "supplement those tools based on their own personal views." Speaking to the Fair and Independent Courts conference [...]
A state trial court judge in Boston ruled Friday that two women from Rhode Island may marry in Massachusetts despite the Commonwealth's 1913 statute forbidding the marriage of couples who can't legally wed in their home states. Judge Thomas Connolly of Suffolk Superior Court ruled that Rhode Island does not expressly prohibit same-sex marriage through [...]
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak said Friday that the military commissions bill approved by the US Senate Thursday could lead to abuses because it does not sufficiently constrain harsh interrogation methods and strips detainees of the ability to challenge their imprisonment through habeas corpus petitions. Speaking to Reuters, Nowak criticized the failure of [...]
US District Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. ruled Thursday that 230,000 recipients of Medicare premium refunds issued in error be given an opportunity to apply for an exemption from repayment before the government can collect the money. Kennedy issued a preliminary injunction Dr. Mark McClellan , Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services [...]
