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17 Jun 2007, 2:26 am
"'Enforced disappearances are illegal, regardless of who carries them out,'" said NYU's Meg Satterthwaite on release of the report, which points to violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and of the Convention Against Torture, to which the United States is party, as well as the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance opened for signature in February.As remarkable as the role of… [read post]
16 Jun 2007, 7:16 pm
And yet, the United States of America somehow still brags about its own legal system, while criticizing other countries.Understanding that America has such a huge percentage of even its own people in prison, is to start to understand the subconscious fear behind much of American life. [read post]
15 Jun 2007, 12:13 pm
While Khouzam may have no right to be in the United States, he most assuredly has a right not to be tortured. [read post]
15 Jun 2007, 4:13 am
Today the United States stands as the sole Western democracy still stuck on the Code of Hammurabi. [read post]
13 Jun 2007, 6:55 pm
The West is awash with fear of the Islamization of Europe.The entire "West" or just parts of the United States? [read post]
10 Jun 2007, 10:31 pm
A good example is Sayers and others v Smithkline Beecham plc and others, an England and Wales Queen's Bench Division last Wednesday from Mr Justice Keith, picked up by LexisNexis Butterworths' All England digests.The United States Department of Health and Human Services was involved in US proceedings in which it was alleged that the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) and MR (measles, rubella) vaccinations in young children helped cause autism. [read post]
9 Jun 2007, 12:30 am
"We can protect society without killing ourselves. [read post]
8 Jun 2007, 9:02 pm
That's the Orwellian message from State Legal Advisor John Bellinger at the Hague on Wednesday, in a lecture entitled "The United States and International Law. [read post]
8 Jun 2007, 12:27 pm
Corporations may be legal fictions as entities, but they are not human. [read post]
7 Jun 2007, 7:42 am
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7 Jun 2007, 4:40 am
"It's growing really fast, and faster than we can probably keep up with," said Jonathan Lovvorn, who leads the Humane Society of the United States' litigation department and has quadrupled his staff to 12 during the past two years. [read post]
7 Jun 2007, 1:17 am
"It's growing really fast, and faster than we can probably keep up with," said the head of the Humane Society of the United States' litigation department, which has quadrupled in size in the past two years. [read post]
4 Jun 2007, 12:14 am
(Full disclosure: I assisted the lawyers challenging the laws in both cases and also co-authored a brief on behalf of a coalition of state legislators arguing for a constitutional right subject to reasonable state regulation). [read post]
3 Jun 2007, 3:08 pm
Ever heard of the United States Social Forum? [read post]
1 Jun 2007, 7:30 pm
There are vital but sometimes murky differences between acting skilfully, acting lawfully and acting ethically.On February 14, 2006, a United States district court issued an unprecedented ruling concerning the California execution by lethal injection of the murderer Michael Morales. [read post]
31 May 2007, 9:07 pm
But Taube does not forget that some democracies, such as Japan and the United States, continue to apply the death penalty, impervious to arguments and moral appeals from Europe. [read post]
31 May 2007, 3:33 pm
A second classic reason for barring the state from declaring religious truth is civil peace: In a pluralistic society, we cannot possibly agree on which religious propositions the state should endorse. [read post]
29 May 2007, 5:39 am
Statement by Physicians for Human RightsPhysician Participation in the Death Penalty[physiciansforhumanrights.org]Society entrusts physicians to work for the benefit of their patientsand the public. [read post]
24 May 2007, 7:46 am
So far this year, 15 people were executed in the United States. [read post]
19 May 2007, 10:12 am
Rather, he invites the State to violate two of the most basic norms of a civilized society - that the State's penal authority be invoked only where necessary to serve the ends of justice, not the ends of a particular individual, and that punishment be imposed only where the State has adequate assurance that the punishment is justified.United States Supreme Court Justice, 1990(1)Robert Comer, Christopher Newton and Elijah Page have something in… [read post]
