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9 Sep 2008, 8:49 am
[JURIST] The government of the Netherlands on Tuesday detailed its plans to ban the burqa [JURIST news archive] in and around all primary schools, including Muslim institutions. [read post]
26 Aug 2004, 9:29 pm
On Thursday the US government asked a VA federal judge to delay for seven days a scheduled hearing in the enemy combatant case of Yaser Esam Hamdi, the US citizen captured in Afghanistan in 2001. [read post]
7 Jul 2006, 3:10 am
[JURIST] The new center-left government under Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi [official profile; BBC profile] is considering granting citizenship to immigrants who have legally resided in Italy for five or more years, Italian Interior Minister Giuliano Amato [Wikipedia profile] said Thursday during a public debate in Rome. [read post]
17 May 2010, 1:31 am
The government responded to the plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction in Thomas More Law Center, et al. v. [read post]
15 Dec 2008, 4:58 pm
[JURIST] The Malaysian government on Monday introduced a bill [text, PDF] that would set up a committee to discipline judges who violate the country's judicial ethics code. [read post]
25 Oct 2006, 8:08 pm
[JURIST] Canadian Justice Minister Vic Toews [official profile] said Wednesday that the Canadian government will review and perhaps appeal an Ontario Superior Court ruling [text, PDF] that struck down as unconstitutional [JURIST report] a key provision of Canada's Anti-Terrorism Act [text; CBC backgrounder]. [read post]
25 Nov 2008, 10:03 am
[JURIST] The British government began issuing identity cards [press release; program backgrounder] Monday to foreign nationals in an effort to curb immigration abuse and to strengthen identity protection. [read post]
4 Sep 2009, 2:38 am
[JURIST] A spokesperson for the department of Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) [official website] said Thursday that the Canadian government will appeal a controversial decision by the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) [official website] to grant asylum to a white South African man who claims he faced persecution in his homeland because of race. [read post]
17 Feb 2010, 10:07 am
[JURIST] A Finnish government commission established to investigate a 2008 school shooting proposed a ban on semiautomatic handguns [press release, in Finnish] in a report [text, PDF; in Finnish] released Wednesday. [read post]
28 Sep 2023, 10:00 pm
The US Congress must agree on a new budget by midnight on September 30, 2023 to support the US federal government’s new fiscal year on October 1. [read post]
28 Sep 2023, 10:00 pm
The US Congress must agree on a new budget by midnight on September 30, 2023 to support the US federal government’s new fiscal year on October 1. [read post]
3 Apr 2008, 3:39 pm
Senator Nick Sherry, Federal Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law has announced that the Rudd Government will be following through on its commitment to remove discrimination against same sex couples in superannuation where one of them is a Commonwealth public servant. [read post]
22 Jul 2005, 8:45 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday ordered [opinion] the US government to sell writings and other materials seized from the home of Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski [Wikipedia profile] in 1996 and use the proceeds to contribute to the $15 million awarded to his victims. [read post]
19 May 2010, 2:21 pm
[JURIST] The government of Thailand on Wednesday imposed a curfew on Bangkok and other areas of the country in response to violence that erupted when the leader of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship [party website, in Thai], also known as the red shirts [BBC backgrounder], announced an end to the two-month long conflict in Bangkok [JURIST news archive] and surrendered to police. [read post]
2 Dec 2008, 5:00 pm
Jon Macey, Deputy Dean and Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law at Yale, has recently published a book titled Corporate Governance, Promises Kept, Promises Broken. [read post]
28 Sep 2023, 10:00 pm
The US Congress must agree on a new budget by midnight on September 30, 2023 to support the US federal government’s new fiscal year on October 1. [read post]
30 Jul 2004, 9:07 am
A district judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia Thursday ordered the government to defend its detention of a Libyan man, Salim Gherebi, at Guantanamo Bay by Tuesday. [read post]
20 Sep 2004, 8:43 am
The Berlin state government has banned the Arab-Islamic Congress due to be held next month which was to rally support for Iraqi and Palestinian "resistance and intifada. [read post]
26 May 2006, 10:15 am
[JURIST] The Belarus Ministry of Justice [official website] has asked the Belarus Supreme Court to close down the Belarus Helsinki Committee [advocacy website], a leading human rights group that has consistently criticized the authoritarian government of President Alexander Lukashenko [official website; BBC profile]. [read post]
25 May 2007, 3:34 pm
[JURIST] The military government of Myanmar [JURIST news archive] Friday extended the house arrest of pro-democracy advocate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi [advocacy website; BBC profile] for another year, rejecting calls for her release by both national and international human rights activists. [read post]
