Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. Chessani, the US Marines commander in charge of the battalion implicated in the death of 24 civilians in Haditha last November, did not order an immediate investigation into the deaths because he did not suspect any wrongdoing, according to a report in Saturday's Washington Post. The Post obtained a copy of [...]
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US Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) said Friday that Congress should write into law some of the remedies that US District Judge Gladys Kessler imposed on the tobacco industry after finding that tobacco companies conspired to deceive the public about the dangers of smoking. Kessler ruled Thursday that the tobacco industry is liable for civil racketeering [...]
US District Judge Reggie B. Walton on Friday denied the latest request by I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to access classified information to prepare his defense on obstruction of justice and perjury charges in connection to the leak of former CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity . Walton has granted Libby's defense team access to other classified [...]
Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: January 2005, Department of Homeland Security, July 18, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The Supreme Court of Chile on Friday stripped former dictator Augusto Pinochet of immunity from additional tax fraud charges, allowing prosecutors to continue with a $27 million fraud case stemming from an investigation of Pinochet's secret offshore back accounts that was established by the former dictator under false names. Chilean legal procedure requires prosecutors to [...]
After a federal judge ruled the NSA domestic surveillance program unconstitutional on Thursday, President Bush said Friday in an appearance at Camp David that he believes the ruling will be overturned on appeal. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a notice of appeal hours after the opinion was released, signaling its intent to challenge [...]
New statistics from the Office of Immigration Statistics in the US Department of Homeland Security estimate that there were 2.5 million more illegal immigrants living in the United States in January 2006 than there were in January 2000, with an increase of half a million since January 2005 . The report, released Friday, comes amidst [...]
Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon announced Friday that he will formally resign from his position on Sunday over allegations that he kissed a woman at a party without her consent. On Thursday, Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz decided to indict Ramon on the allegations, and on Friday, Ramon relinquished his parliamentary immunity and declined his [...]
The trial of blind Chinese human rights legal activist Chen Guangcheng for illegal assembly and intent to destroy public property was thrown into confusion Friday when Chinese police arrested three of his lawyers, who were accused of stealing a wallet. Two were later released, but Chen refused to accept court-appointed substitutes, insisting they were not [...]
The governing party in Rwanda is proposing legislation to eliminate the death penalty for genocide in an effort to encourage other countries to extradite suspects in the 1994 genocide that left at least 937,000 Tutsis and Hutus dead, according to Rwanda Attorney General Martin Ngoga speaking to AP Friday. Rwanda has demanded the extradition of [...]
