The European Court of Justice ruled Thursday that Great Britain's rest period guidelines for workers are not in compliance with European Union law which mandates minimum daily and weekly breaks. Member countries of the EU are obligated to ensure workers receive 11 consecutive hours of rest in every 24-hour period and a 24-hour rest period [...]
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The Florida Supreme Court plans to analyze newly proposed rules that would stop the practice of sealing certain court cases from public view in a system that Chief Justice Fred Lewis said has "gone awry" Wednesday. A Miami Herald investigation uncovered over 400 hidden negligence, malpractice, divorce, and criminal cases involving judges, lawyers, politicians, businessmen, [...]
An Indonesian court Thursday sentenced Islamic militant Dwi Widiarto to 18 years in prison for his part in the October 2005 bombings of three restaurants in Bali which killed 26 people. Widiarto was charged with videotaping the three suicide bombers and meeting on three occasions with the suspected coordinator of the attacks, Noordin Mohammed Top [...]
Amnesty International on Thursday criticized Colombia for allowing attacks on human rights defenders, calling on the international community to provide more support for local activists in Colombia . In a new report released Thursday, Amnesty blamed the Colombian government for facilitating hostilities against human rights activists and highlighted an apparently coordinated effort by Colombian security [...]
Rights activists on Thursday called for more information from the US government regarding secret CIA prisons where high-value terror suspects have been detained, saying that though US President George Bush's acknowledgement Wednesday of the prisons' existence was welcome, more information needs to be disclosed. Manfred Nowak , the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture , called [...]
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday vetoed the Free Curriculum Act , a bill designed to add protections against discrimination in schools by prohibiting teaching or textbooks that "reflect adversely" on students based on their sexual orientation. The bill passed both the state Senate and Assembly last month. Schwarzenegger argued that existing law already "provides [...]
The US Justice Department filed a motion Wednesday requesting US District Judge Simeon T. Lake III defer a ruling on vacating the criminal record of former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay until former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling is sentenced on October 23. Lay and Skilling were convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges in May but Lay [...]
US District Court Judge Ewing Werlein has set either February 5 or September 4, 2007 as the trial date for three former British bankers , known as the Natwest Three, who face fraud charges related to the Enron scandal . Defense lawyers argued for a late trial date in order to allow sufficient time to [...]
An amendment to the FY 2007 Department of Defense Appropriations bill which would prohibit the US military from using cluster bombs in proximity to civilians was defeated in the Senate by a vote of 70-30 on Wednesday. The Cluster Munitions Amendment , introduced by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) , would [...]
US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) said Wednesday that negotiations in Congress to implement comprehensive immigration reform will be streamlined to focus on border security and worksite enforcement. Both houses of Congress have passed immigration reform bills and the two versions must be reconciled and voted on before a final bill can be presented [...]
