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1 Oct 2007, 4:45 am
County of San Diego, No. 05-56202Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations does not create judicially enforceable rights that may be vindicated by an individual in an action brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983. [read post]
12 Jul 2007, 9:00 am
Interestingly enough, Garcia's attorney had asked the jury for a $40-million award. [read post]
20 Jun 2007, 5:39 pm
America is trying to maintain its myths about its legal system, even while the desperate reality of life inside the USA is starting to blow back into escalating social upheaval.USA torture and illegal jailing overseas, starts with USA domestic torture and illegal jailing at homeThe world press has documented clear violations of human and legal rights by America in its overseas jails, such as the infamous situations in Guantanamo and occupied Iraq and Afghanistan, and the even more secret… [read post]
16 Jun 2007, 7:16 pm
America is trying to maintain its myths about its legal system, even while the desperate reality of life inside the USA is starting to blow back into escalating social upheaval.USA torture and illegal jailing overseas, starts with USA domestic torture and illegal jailing at homeThe world press has documented clear violations of human and legal rights by America in its overseas jails, such as the infamous situations in Guantanamo and occupied Iraq and Afghanistan, and the even more secret network of… [read post]
23 May 2007, 6:24 am
“Families expelled from the Chagos Islands by the British Government to make way for the Diego Garcia US airbase today won their legal battle to return home. [read post]
13 Jan 2007, 5:47 am
San Diego has both. [read post]
12 Oct 2006, 1:00 pm
Velasquez, a San Diego immigration attorney who teaches immigration law at California Western, has been dealing with the complex immigration issues for more than 20 years. [read post]
9 Jun 2006, 5:49 am
Cir. 2005); see also the blog post on this case by Roger Alford at Opinio Juris), as was a case by the former inhabitants of the island of Diego Garcia, which is now used as a US military base and from which the inhabitants were, prior to the installation of that base, expelled (Bancoult v. [read post]
11 May 2006, 8:28 am
[JURIST] The UK High Court on Thursday ruled [judgment text] that a group of Indian Ocean islanders known as the Chagossians [Wikipedia backgrounder; advocacy website] must be allowed to return to the group of islands from which they were exiled in the 1960s in order to make way for the Diego Garcia naval base [official website]. [read post]
22 Apr 2006, 10:42 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit [official website] on Friday ruled [PDF opinion] that the federal courts were not authorized to grant compensation to the Chagossians [Wikipedia backgrounder], a group of Indian Ocean islanders forced from their homes in 1963 when the US Department of Defense cleared the island of Diego Garcia to develop a US military base [Diego Garcia base [read post]
28 Jun 2005, 4:15 pm
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak [ICJ profile] said Tuesday that the UN has learned of serious allegations that the US is secretly detaining prisoners aboard military vessels, perhaps in the Indian Ocean in the vicinity of the US island base at Diego Garcia [official website]. [read post]
