Former Argentine Navy captain Adolfo Scilingo appeared in a Spanish court Friday where he is on trial for committing genocide during Argentina's "Dirty War." In addition to genocide, Scilingo also faces 30 charges of murder, 93 of causing injury, 255 terrorism charges, and 286 torture charges, all stemming from Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship. The trial, authorized [...]

The United States has announced that it will withhold $10 million in aid to Serbia and Montenegro due to Belgrade's lack of cooperation with the UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal of the former Yugoslavia . According to the US State Department: The Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2005 Section 563 (c) prohibits [...]

The Kansas Senate voted Thursday in favor of a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage and would prohibit the state from allowing civil unions or granting benefits normally associated with marriage to same-sex couples. The measure, which passed by a 28-11 vote, will now move to the state House, where it must pass [...]

Google Inc. and the Securities and Exchange Commission have settled a complaint over the company's failure to register employee stock options during its initial public offering in August. The settlement, in which Google accepted a cease-and-desist order by the SEC, allows the company to avoid any financial penalties. The SEC charged Google with violating a [...]

Court-martial proceedings began Friday for a US soldier charged with the murder of a wounded Iraqi teenager during a outbreak of violence in Baghdad last year. Staff Sgt. Cardenas Alban, of the 41st Infantry Regiment out of Fort Riley, KA, is one of three soldiers charged in the incident and the second to be court-martialed. [...]

A defense witness testifying Thursday in the military trial of Spc. Charles Graner told the jury that intelligence officers at the Abu Ghraib prison told Graner and others what to do. Former military policewoman Megan Ambuhl said "They would come down with their detainees and let us know what they wanted us to do with [...]

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukoych Friday filed one last appeal over the December 26 presidential re-vote with the Ukrainian Supreme Court in a final legal bid to stop the inauguration of opposition leader and apparent election winner Viktor Yushchenko . Ukraine's Central Election Commission certified the vote last week, but the Supreme Court stepped [...]

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Friday, January 14. At the United Nations, the Security Council will meet at 10 AM ET for closed consultations on Iraq. The trial of Fatmir Limaj and his co-defendants continues Friday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. [...]

World Report 2005, Human Rights Watch, released January 13, 2005 . Excerpt: No one would equate the two, yet each, in its own way, has had an insidious effect. One involves indifference in the face of the worst imaginable atrocities, the other is emblematic of a powerful government flouting a most basic prohibition. One presents [...]

Selman, et al. v. Cobb County School District, United States District Court for Northern Georgia, Judge Clarence Cooper, January 13, 2005 . Excerpt: In the instant case, it is undisputed that the Cobb County School Board used the money of taxpayers to produce and place the Sticker in dispute in certain of the Cobb County [...]