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19 Nov 2015, 8:59 am
Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] called on the US Wednesday to halt the sale of weapons [press release] to the government of Saudi Arabia [HRW backgrounder]. [read post]
20 Oct 2011, 12:52 pm
Demjanjuk argues that the US government failed to turn over a 1985... [read post]
7 Jul 2004, 1:02 am
The New York Law Journal reports that NY attorneys and a filmmaker have persuaded the government to reopen the Emmitt Till murder case, which launched the US [read post]
20 Sep 2005, 9:02 am
[JURIST] The US government has argued in a court filing that Pope Benedict XVI [official profile] has immunity as the head of the Vatican state [official website] and that a lawsuit against him should be dismissed. [read post]
24 Jul 2006, 8:17 pm
[JURIST] The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [complaint, Word document] Monday against the Bush administration, alleging that the US government failed to fulfill its obligations to protect US citizens [ADC press release] in Lebanon when the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah [JURIST news archive] began earlier this month. [read post]
18 Sep 2007, 4:10 pm
[JURIST] The US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee [official website] Tuesday announced [press release] an investigation into whether State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard [official profile] interfered with a fraud investigation related to construction of a new US embassy in Baghdad to protect the Bush administration from "political embarrassment. [read post]
15 Nov 2007, 1:57 am
[JURIST] A delegation of lawyers from the Iraqi bar association Wednesday hand-delivered a four-page letter to several US lawmakers that criticizes the US government for not devoting adequate financial resources to ensure the rule of law in Iraq, according to the Hill. [read post]
13 Feb 2018, 5:42 am
Government researchers recently concluded that radiation from cell phone use poses little, if any, risk of cancer in humans. [read post]
18 May 2023, 10:00 pm
However, according to a recent report , Chinese venture capital investment in the US life sciences industry remains remarkably resilient, partly due to the Chinese government’s “Made in China 2025” initiative and other industrial policies. [read post]
25 Mar 2010, 11:12 am
[JURIST] A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Wednesday denied [order, PDF] a Yemeni Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee's habeas corpus petition on its merits, allowing the US government to prolong the detention indefinitely. [read post]
12 May 2012, 10:37 am
The bill both prohibits state judges from using foreign law to adjudicate disputes and makes contracts that purport to be governed by foreign or religious law unenforceable. [read post]
25 Nov 2013, 9:27 am
[JURIST] The UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Heiner Bielefeldt [official profile], on Monday urged [statement] the government of Malaysia to overturn the nation's ban on a Catholic publication's use of the word "Allah" to refer to God. [read post]
15 Mar 2010, 1:32 pm
Denver police change rules on use of force - The Denver PostDenver police officers as of today won't carry blackjacks and must comply with a host of other rules governing the use of stun guns and other implements, thanks to 2008 deadly force audit recommendations only now taking effect. [read post]
12 Jan 2005, 3:04 am
INS [Duke Law backgrounder], the Court narrowly held 5-4 (Souter, Stevens, Ginsburg and Breyer JJ. dissenting) that a refugee living in the US - in this instance a Somalian from a country with no functioning government - [read post]
16 Jun 2018, 10:00 am
[more] In a unanimous opinion [PDF] delivered Thursday, the US Supreme Court [judicial website] ruled that US courts do not have to defer to a foreign government's interpretation of its... [read post]
17 Mar 2004, 10:50 pm
As reported yesterday on JURIST's Paper Chase, US District Judge Gladys Kessler has allowed the government's $289 billion racketeering suit against the [read post]
15 Jun 2010, 6:42 am
[JURIST] The Swiss Federal Assembly [official website] on Tuesday approved an agreement [text, PDF] with the US that will allow Swiss bank UBS [corporate website; JURIST news archive] to disclose account information of clients suspected by the US government of tax evasion, but also voted to send it to a referendum. [read post]
22 Jan 2014, 10:15 am
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Tuesday accused [press release] the US of undermining efforts to try the Syrian government and its president Bashar al-Assad [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] in the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website]. [read post]
7 Dec 2011, 5:15 am
[JURIST] The US Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] returned Tuesday to the longstanding debate [hearing materials] over whether to televise the proceedings of the US Supreme Court [official website], including whether Congress, as an equal branch of government, has the authority to require the court to admit cameras. [read post]
24 Feb 2004, 5:33 am
In Tuesday's US law and business press, the Miami Daily Business Review reports on the US Supreme Court's refusal to hear the habeas corpus case of a FL man detained for five months after 9/11.... [read post]
