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30 May 2008, 12:49 pm
[JURIST] An opposition party in Japan [JURIST news archive] has introduced a bill in Japan's House of Representatives [official website, in Japanese] that would provide compensation for Korean and Taiwanese nationals convicted of war crimes [backgrounder] committed while working for the Japanese military occupying their territories during World War II. [read post]
9 Feb 2006, 12:24 am
The bill would allow the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) [FJC backgrounder], established under [read post]
5 Mar 2007, 3:29 am
[JURIST] The lower house of the Jordanian parliament [official website] approved a bill Sunday that would subject journalists to jail sentences for defaming any religion protected under the country's constitution [text] - i.e. [read post]
27 Jul 2006, 8:52 am
[JURIST] US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) [official website] Wednesday introduced legislation [S 3731] that would give Congress the power to bring lawsuits in federal court [JURIST report] to challenge presidential bill signing statements [1993 DOJ backgrounder] the constitutionality of which is in question. [read post]
25 Feb 2004, 9:37 am
The UK Government Wednesday formally introduced in Parliament a Constitutional Reform Bill creating a new Supreme Court to replace the existing judicial panel of the House of Lords as the UK's highest judicial authority, abolishing the traditional post of Lord Chancellor, and establishing a new commission charged with appointing judges. [read post]
20 Feb 2007, 7:10 pm
[JURIST] The Kansas House of Representatives [official website] on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to a bill [text, PDF] making English the state's "official" language. [read post]
8 Sep 2009, 7:17 am
Although both houses of Germany's parliament had previously approved the treaty [JURIST report], the German Constitutional Court [official website] ruled [judgment; JURIST report] in June [read post]
13 Nov 2005, 7:38 am
[JURIST] President Bush is set to sign a bill [text] this week providing for US military assistance to Nepal [JURIST news archive] if its government "has restored civil liberties, is protecting human rights, and has demonstrated, through dialogue with Nepal's political parties, a commitment to a clear timetable to restore multi-party democratic government consistent with the 1990 Nepalese [read post]
25 Jan 2007, 1:14 pm
Bill Miller, the legendary stock picker who manages the Legg Mason Value Trust mutual fund, says he is often asked whether, on some level, he is relieved that his streak — 15 years of besting the Standard & Poor’s 500 — is over. “The answer is no,” he wrote in his latest letter to shareholders [...] [read post]
20 Aug 2004, 2:57 pm
Zimbabwe's government Friday published a draft bill that, if passed by parliament, would bar international human rights groups from the country and would make it an offence for local aid groups to receive foreign funding for human rights activities. [read post]
27 Jul 2006, 8:09 am
[JURIST] Both houses of the US Congress passed bills Wednesday that impose investigation guidelines on the Treasury Department's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) [official website; Wikipedia backgrounder], the panel that approved a Dubai-owned company to manage US ports earlier this year. [read post]
17 Mar 2008, 9:01 am
[JURIST] An Australian parliamentarian Monday introduced a bill [text] in the Parliament of Australia [official website] that would call for the appointment of an independent reviewer to evaluate Australia's counterterrorism laws. [read post]
6 Dec 2007, 10:08 am
[JURIST] The US Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] Thursday approved a bipartisan bill that would allow television coverage of all open US Supreme Court hearings. [read post]
19 Nov 2014, 10:41 am
The Columbus Dispatch reports that a bill was introduced in the Ohio House last week to shield the identities of anyone who makes or sells Ohio's execution drugs, as well as anyone who participates in executions performed by lethal injection. [read post]
17 Jul 2009, 3:39 am
[JURIST] The US Senate [official website] approved a bill [S 909 materials] Thursday that would expand hate crimes law to include crimes motivated by sexual orientation or gender. [read post]
10 Aug 2009, 6:22 am
The legislation, proposed in response to last August's South Ossetia conflict [BBC backgrounder], would allow intervention by Russian troops in order to protect [read post]
6 Mar 2023, 2:00 am
Local Law 26 now requires the NYC Department […] The post Council Passes Bill for More Data on Families With Children in Shelters appeared first on CityLand. [read post]
25 Jul 2006, 7:59 am
Specter's comments came on the same day that an American Bar Association Task [read post]
13 Apr 2007, 10:29 am
The Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act [S. 3 materials; [read post]
21 Mar 2007, 1:15 pm
[JURIST] The upper house of the Jordanian parliament [official website] on Wednesday approved a bill that imposes stiff fines for journalists who defame any religion protected under the country's constitution [text] - i.e. [read post]
