The US Supreme Court Monday issued rulings on the Fourth Amendment in Illinois v. Caballes and on a tax law issue in Commissioner v. Banks. In Caballes, the Court held that a driver stopped for speeding and then subjected to a "dog sniff" that indicated the presence of drugs in a particular location of the [...]

In Monday's international brief, US lawmakers from the House International Relations Subcommittee on Africa who met with Sudanese government officials and displaced Sudanese refugees in Chad over the weekend are expected to announce that they will urge the US Government to push harder for UN sanctions against Sudan . Representatives Barbara Lee, Jim McDermott, Diane [...]

Microsoft announced Monday that it has decided not to appeal the landmark December ruling of the European Court of Justice ordering it to immediately implement EU antitrust sanctions that the European Commission imposed in a March 2004 decision . The sanctions order the software giant to create a version of Windows stripped of its music [...]

A leading candidate on the Shiite Muslim ticket for this week's elections in Iraq has said that he fears the landmark poll could be tarnished by fraud and abuse. Iraqi Finance Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi indicated that security threats in certain areas of the country could lead to monitoring problems, and that any tampering of [...]

The US Supreme Court Monday declined to hear an appeal by Florida Governor Jeb Bush against a Florida Supreme Court ruling striking down as an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers a law that had authorized him to mandate the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube after a court had allowed her husband to [...]

Iraqi authorities Monday announced the arrest of Sami Mohammed al-Jafi, also known as Abu Omar al-Kurdi, a top aide to al Qaeda-linked Abu Musab al-Zarqawi . Al-Kurdi has been in Iraqi custody since January 15th, but the announcement of his capture was delayed until today. In a statement , Kurdi confessed to plans to attack [...]

Britain's Law Society , which represents lawyers in England and Wales, has called for the nine foreign terror suspects who have been detained in the UK since December 2001 to be tried or released. In a decision issued last month, a nine-judge panel of the House of Lords ruled that the indefinite detention of foreign [...]

The US Defense Department has denied a published report that it has set up a new internal espionage arm to get around legal restrictions on foreign clandestine operations. The Washington Post said over the weekend that DOD had established a "Strategic Support Branch" that would be subject to fewer legal constraints than CIA missions under [...]

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Monday, Jan. 24. The US Senate will hold an executive session today at 3 PM ET to consider the nomination of Carlos M. Gutierrez for the Secretary of Commerce post. A live webcast is available via C-SPAN. The Illinois Supreme [...]

The UK Ministry of Defence has confirmed that British army prosecutors have completed an inquiry into nine more allegations of brutality by British soldiers in Iraq and are contemplating whether to file charges, Sunday's Observer reports. Four of the cases involve the fatal shooting of Iraqis during military operations while two involve non-fatal injuries; three [...]