Although he was expected to stay on until September 2006 , former Disney Chairman Michael Eisner has cut all ties with Walt Disney Co. according to a document filed Thursday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission . Eisner stepped down as chief executive last week, but the filing says he also resigned his seat [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion on Thursday seeking to gain access to the New Orleans city jail in response to allegations of mistreatment during Hurricane Katrina . The motion for a temporary restraining order to preserve evidence is supported by declarations from two prisoners who described being abandoned at the jail with [...]

AP is reporting that the US Senate has passed a bill that gives President Bush $50 billion for military spending, but also puts restrictions on the treatment of detainees. Earlier this week, the Senate approved an amendment to the military spending bill that sets restrictions on the detention, interrogation and prosecution of terror suspects. The [...]

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has confirmed that detainees are on hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba. The humanitarian agency, which made a 10-day visit to the US base in late September, was allowed to visit the infirmary, see the detainees and speak with them. ICRC representative Antonella Notari [...]

Two former British law lords have condemned recent UK anti-terror proposals as "intolerable" and in violation of human rights laws. Referring to provisions in the proposed bill which would amend current UK anti-terrorism legislation , Lord Steyn and Lord Lloyd said that if the government is given authority to hold terror suspects for up to [...]

British lawyers representing Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks have threatened legal action to compel the UK Home Office to grant him citizenship. Hicks applied for British citizenship on the grounds that he is of British ancestry. If he Hicks is recognized as a Briton, his lawyers say they will turn to Britain for aid and [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Audrey McFarlane of the University of Baltimore School of Law says that concern over the protection of "property rights" in the wake of the US Supreme Court ruling in Kelo v. New London has obscured larger questions relating to the allocation of public resources to large private enterprises, lack of public accountability [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law says that although President Bush said he would consult with the Senate before nominating a replacement for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers reflected no real consultation… The second effort to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, [...]

The International Atomic Energy Agency and Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei have been awarded the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize , the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced this morning. The Committee cited the IAEA and its sometimes-embattled chief "for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful [...]

Hirst v. the United Kingdom, European Court of Human Rights, October 6, 2005 . Excerpt: In this case, the Court would begin by underlining that prisoners in general continue to enjoy all the fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed under the Convention save for the right to liberty, where lawfully imposed detention expressly falls within the [...]