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7 Mar 2006, 11:57 am
[JURIST] A new report [text] released Tuesday by the Pew Hispanic Center [organization website] estimates that the total number of illegal immigrants in the US has risen to some 12 million, despite US government attempts to crack down on inflow. [read post]
31 Jul 2015, 5:00 am
Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) has introduced legislation in the US House seeking to prevent state and local governments from using eminent domain for economic development. [read post]
8 Dec 2006, 7:14 am
[JURIST] US government lawyers asked a federal judge Friday to dismiss a lawsuit [complaint, PDF; ACLU case file] against outgoing US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld [official profile] in connection with alleged torture and abused by US personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan, arguing Rumsfeld is entitled to immunity. [read post]
16 Aug 2004, 6:23 am
Lawyers for Abu Ali, who is accused of being linked to a Pakistani militant group, say he is being held in Saudi Arabia at the request of the US, but the government says that Abu Ali's detention [read post]
17 Mar 2010, 8:50 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed suit [complaint, PDF] Tuesday seeking information related to the US government's use of unmanned Predator drones. [read post]
27 Oct 2005, 9:15 am
[JURIST] US officials and members of the Iraqi government have mismanaged $24 million in reconstruction grants made by the US in 2004, and fraudulent activities may have occurred in some of the cases, according to a report [text, PDF] released Wednesday by the US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction [official website]. [read post]
19 Mar 2007, 12:09 am
[JURIST] The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) [advocacy website] urged the US and Afghanistan governments Sunday to establish a better legal framework to guide US military actions in the fight against the Taliban, criticizing US forces for civilian deaths in Afghanistan. [read post]
17 Mar 2005, 4:51 am
[JURIST] China [government website; JURIST Country news archive] Thursday announced a political prisoner's release in an apparent exchange for the US dropping its pursuit of a UN censure of China's rights record. [read post]
12 Sep 2008, 4:30 am
The Pew Center on the States reminds us that one in every hundred American is behind bars, a rate of incarceration far greater than in other developed countries.... [read post]
13 Jul 2024, 8:37 pm
In 2021, Berisha and his family were sanctioned by the US Department of State on “significant corruption” accusations, barring them from entering the United States. [read post]
29 Nov 2018, 2:00 am
Congress has mandated that the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) begin using private companies to collect delinquent tax debts. [read post]
6 Nov 2008, 4:11 am
The Land Use Law Blog, however, has beaten me to it, as has Law of the Land. [read post]
23 Apr 2014, 12:55 pm
Their first report, issued in January 2014, reviewed the government's use of the Patriot Act to collect all Americans' calling records. [read post]
10 Oct 2014, 11:39 am
This post includes a draft of the second Chapter of Part II-- Hierarchies of Law and Governance; Sources and Uses, Chapter 9 (Ordering Government Through Law: Constitutions, Statutes, Treaties, Regulations, Judicial Decisions and Other Sources). [read post]
11 Jun 2024, 5:44 pm
Their actions have affected every level of city government. [read post]
19 Jan 2010, 10:11 am
In states governed by the rule of law and fair trial, the answer is a simple and clear “no” if torture was applied by national authorities and the torture evidence is meant to be used in a subsequent criminal trial. [read post]
14 Apr 2023, 5:43 am
Using the Access to Information Act, I have now obtained a copy of the government’s internal estimates for the economic and production impact of Bill C-11 (methodology, memorandum, PPT), which confirm many of my suspicions. [read post]
28 Dec 2011, 9:15 am
Although other states have laws governing the use of jailhouse informants, Florida would be the first to adopt this particular reform. [read post]
1 Jun 2019, 6:07 am
Principally it suggests the way in which global economic stakeholders are increasingly retreating from private market driven governance to state to state mechanisms. [read post]
6 Aug 2015, 1:37 am
See specific tabs or check the Using Government Websites tab for descriptions of FDsys, Congress.gov, and THOMAS. [read post]
