France has replaced the US as the industrialized nation receiving the most asylum applications from refugees, though overall numbers of refugees seeking asylum in Europe and North America have reached their lowest levels since 1988, according to report from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees released Tuesday. According the UNHCR report, Asylum Levels and Trends [...]
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Ziad al-Khasawneh, head of Saddam Hussein's legal defense team, said Tuesday that plans to try Saddam before the Iraqi Special Tribunal are illegitimate. Al-Khasawneh said that the tribunal does not meet the requirements for a fair and safe trial and that he and other members of the defense team have been denied access to Saddam. [...]
The UK House of Commons passed the Prevention of Terrorism Bill by a vote of 272-219 Monday, despite objections that the anti-terror bill didn't receive proper debate. Home Secretary Charles Clarke has said that he will amend the bill so that judicial approval is necessary before the government can detain terror suspects under house arrest. [...]
Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Tuesday, March 1. The US Supreme Court will hear arguments in two cases today. At 10 AM ET, the Court will hear arguments in the consolidated cases of Exxon Corp. v. Allapattah Services and Ortega v. Starkist Foods, 04-70 and [...]
Padilla v. Hanft, United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Charleston Division, Judge Henry F. Floyd, February 28, 2005 . Excerpt: This Court sits to interpret the law as it is and not as the Court might wish it to be. Pursuant to its interpretation, the Court finds that the President has [...]
County Reports on Human Rights Practices, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, February 28, 2005 . Read the full text of the Reports here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The Israeli supreme court on Monday ordered the army to reopen its investigation of the shooting of a US peace activist in April 2003, giving the military just 90 days to interview six witnesses to the shooting that left US peace activist Brian Avery with severe facial disfigurement after a violent altercation between Palestinian protestors [...]
A federal judge in South Carolina Monday granted a motion for a writ of habeas corpus for Jose Padilla , giving the Bush administration 45 days to either charge the terror suspect with a crime or set him free. In detaining Padilla for more than two years as an "enemy combatant", the government has maintained [...]
A US District Court judge has refused to block new federal campaign finance regulations that an abortion rights interest group claims will hinder its ability to participate in political campaigns, and by extension impinges upon its First Amendment rights. US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly refused a request for preliminary injunction by EMILY's List , which [...]
The US Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in Spector v. Norwegian Cruise Line , 03-1388, dealing with the issue of whether foreign cruise ships that stop at US ports must comply with Americans with Disabilities Act provisions protecting disabled passengers from discrimination. The lawsuit against Norwegian Cruise Line Ltd. involves three cruises that originated in [...]
