JURIST Guest Columnist Daniel Joyner of the University of Warwick School of Law in the United Kingdom says that now that Iran has been referred to the UN Security Council over its nuclear program, some Council action under Chapter VII of the UN Charter seems likely, but it's difficult to see what would come of [...]

The Montenegrin government agreed Tuesday to delay the republic's independence referendum from Serbia originally scheduled for April 30 and accept a controversial formula proposed by the European Union (EU) . The EU said earlier in the week that it would consider the referendum to be valid only if there is a 55% majority, a turnout [...]

Two British court-appointed lawyers assisting former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic have submitted a motion to subpoena former US president Bill Clinton to testify at Milosevic's trial before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . Milosevic is asking for Clinton's testimony asserting he was privy to vital information about the Balkan wars and [...]

The Russian Education Ministry faces a lawsuit calling for it to remove evolution from the national science curriculum. The parents of Maria Shreiber, a 15 year old schoolgirl from St. Petersburg, have argued in court papers that school presentation of Darwin's theory prevents students from developing different beliefs about the creation of man. The case [...]

American Online Inc. v John Does, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, February 27, 2006 . Read the full text of the complaints. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Scheidler v. National Organization for Women, Inc., Supreme Court of the United States, February 28, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here .

State v. Foster, Supreme Court of Ohio, February 27, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A lawyer for a Yemeni prisoner held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp has filed a motion in DC federal court asking that the use of a restraint chair and large nasal feeding tubes to force-feed his client be prohibited if he resumes his hunger strike. Muhammed Bawazir ended his protest hunger strike in January [...]

The International Criminal Court announced Tuesday that construction on 12 holding cells has been completed, and the world's first general international war crimes court is ready to use them to detain leaders of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) of Uganda, for whom the court issued arrest warrants last year. The ICC hopes to arrest the [...]

An Oregon chapter of the defunct Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation claimed in a lawsuit filed in federal court Tuesday that the National Security Agency had illegally wiretapping several conversations between the charity and its attorneys. The complaint alleges that the NSA failed to get a court order authorizing electronic surveillance thereby failing to follow procedures required [...]