The Washington State Supreme Court on Wednesday affirmed a judge's ruling that a recall petition against Spokane Mayor Jim West can proceed. Shannon Sullivan filed the petition in May, alleging that West used his elected office for personal gain by writing a letter of recommendation to assist someone he believed to be an 18-year-old man [...]
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US soldier Glendale Wells was sentenced Wednesday to two months in prison by a military court for his role in abusing an Afghan detainee known as Dilawar , who died in December 2002 at Bagram Control Point near Kabul. Wells earlier pleaded guilty to slamming Dilawar against a wall and failing to intervene as other [...]
Complete text of the draft Iraqi constitution, as translated from the Arabic by the Associated Press : PREAMBLE CHAPTER ONE: BASIC PRINCIPLES CHAPTER TWO: RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS PART ONE: RIGHTS PART TWO: FREEDOMS CHAPTER THREE: THE FEDERAL AUTHORITIES PART ONE: THE LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY PART TWO: THE EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY PART THREE: THE JUDICIARY PART FOUR: INDEPENDENT [...]
Means v. Navajo Nation, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, August 24, 2005 . Excerpt: The Navajo Nation is empowered, under the 1990 Amendments, to prosecute and punish Indians for misdemeanors, despite their status as nonmembers of the tribe. The denial of Means's petition for a writ of habeas corpus is AFFIRMED. [...]
An anonymous Western diplomat told AFP Wednesday that the United States is lobbying for Iran to go before the UN Security Council if it does not comply with a September 3 deadline to stop the nuclear fuel operations it resumed earlier this month . The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) began investigating Iran's nuclear program [...]
Roy v. Secretary for Justice, Hong Kong High Court, Judge Michael Hartmann, August 24, 2005 . Read the full text of the opinion here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
A Kenyan judge Wednesday called for medical examinations of six suspects who allege they were tortured by police in the murder investigation of Roman Catholic Bishop Luigi Locati , who was shot to death in July. The men claim that the police burned them with cigarettes, suspended them upside down, denied food and water, and [...]
Leading Wednesday's states brief, a New Jersey court of appeals ruled today that out-of-state companies with no physical presence in the state may be taxed on sales of their goods. State Treasurer John McCormac said the ruling "affirms our long-standing interpretation of tax responsibility for companies doing business in New Jersey and obligated to pay [...]
A US federal judge has ruled that there is enough evidence for families of the 17 sailors who died in the 2000 terror attack in Yemen on the USS Cole to pursue their lawsuit against the Sudanese government. US District Judge Robert G. Doumar said that there is a sufficient amount of evidence showing that [...]
Former Abu Ghraib commander Janis Karpinski has alleged that US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld personally signed a memorandum authorizing extreme interrogation techniques used at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison . In an interview with Thomas Jefferson School of Law Professor Marjorie Cohn published Wednesday on truthout.org, Karpinski said that when she first visited the prison [...]
