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Supreme Court hears international child abduction, death penalty cases
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF] Wednesday in two cases. In Lozano v. Montoya Alvarez [transcript, PDF; JURIST report] the court will determine whether a district court considering a petition under the Hague Convention [text; JURIST news archive] for the return of an... [full story] |
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| Supreme Court rules on Fifth Amendment issue
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Wednesday in Kansas v. Cheever [SCOTUSblog backgrounder] that the Fifth Amendment [text] does not prohibit the government from introducing evidence from a court-ordered mental evaluation of a criminal defendant to rebut that defendant's presentation of expert testimony in support of.... [more]
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 The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was created [pdf] in 1993 by UN Resolution 827 to adjudicate the alleged war crimes perpetrated in the region of the former Yugoslavia since 1991. The ICTY's term of prosecution has been extended until December 2014. ...." | | more in Features ... |
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World court established at The Hague
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On December 13, 1920, the League of Nations
Assembly, sitting in Geneva, approved the statute setting up the
Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague.Learn more about the Permanent
Court of International Justice. Visit the
website of the Permanent Court's successor body, the International Court of
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