Three former detainees filed a lawsuit Monday against the City of Chicago and a number of Chicago police officers for alleged abuse at an "off the books" detention center. The lawsuit alleges abuses at the Homan...
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Prosecutors have asked for three and a half years imprisonment for Oskar Gröening, who is charged with 300,000 counts of acting as an accessory to murder in Auschwitz before the Lüneberg District Court . Gröening, 94-year-old...
Virginia high court holds emails exempt from state Freedom of Information Act
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the emails of Michael Mann, a former University of Virginia climatologist and professor, are exempt from disclosure under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act . Former Virginia...
An Analysis on Independent Reports: Uses, Reliability and Legality
Kathryn Young, University of Virginia School of Law
A Dangerous Intersection: The Electoral College and the Fiscal Cliff
Victor Williams, Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law
JURIST Guest Columnist Victor Williams of The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law says that President Obama should ignore pro forma sessions of Congress and exercise his constitutional authority to make recess appointments in order to overcome the...
The Supreme Court of Virginia on Friday agreed to hear a case seeking to determine whether Virignia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli can subpoena records about a former professor at the University of Virginia ....
Equatorial Guinea on Tuesday defended the execution of four men convicted on Saturday of attempting to assassinate President Teodoro Obiang during a 2009 attack on the presidential palace. Jose Abeso Nsue, Manuel Ndong Anseme, Alipio Ndong Asumu and Jacinto...
Equatorial Guinea court sentences 7 Nigerians for palace attack
An Equatorial Guinea court on Monday sentenced seven Nigerians to 12 years in prison for a 2009 attack on the presidential palace. Court president Antonio Pascual Ojo Ebobo found the Nigerians guilty of terrorism and said they...
Former British officer Simon Mann , convicted last year of involvement in a 2004 coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea, was released from prison Tuesday after being pardoned [Decree 116/2009 text; Decree...