JURIST - Justice department (us)

On May 15, 2009, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Leon Panetta defended information the CIA provided to the US Congress on the use of interrogation techniques during the Bush administration. Panett'a comments came in response to allegations by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who....... [more]

On May 14, 2009, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi claimed that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) misled the US Congress about the use of enhanced interrogation techniques under the Bush administration by explicitly stating that they were not utilizing the controversial technique known as waterb....... [more]

The Malaysian Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War (KLFCW) on Friday found former US president George W. Bush and seven administration officials guilty of war crimes after a symbolic trial. The five-member tribunal convicted Bush, former vice president Dick Cheney, former defense secretary Don....... [more]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit Thursday against Maricopa County, Arizona, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, and Sheriff Joe Arpaio alleging discriminatory conduct. The DOJ claims that Arpaio and his department engaged in a pattern or practice of discriminatory and unlawful law enf....... [more]

On April 29, 2011, a US Army panel of experts declared that Pfc. Bradley Manning was competent to stand trial for leaking a classified video and classified State Department documents to the controversial website Wikileaks in 2010. Manning's pre-trial hearing concluded in December 2011, after which M....... [more]

On April 27, 2010, two lawsuits were filed challenging Arizona's immigration law, SB 1070. The law requires law enforcement to question anyone whose immigration status appears suspect, and grants officers broader authority to detain and investigate such suspects. Arizona police officer Martin Escoba....... [more]

On April 27, 2011, former Costa Rican president Miguel Angel Rodriguez was found guilty of corruption charges and sentenced to five years in prison. While president, Rodriguez accepted more than $800,000 in bribes from global telecommunications company Alcatel-Lucent in exchange for a deal with the....... [more]

JURIST Guest Columnist Harry Gerla of the University of Dayton School of Law says that contrary to Daniel Crane's prediction, the alleged agreement among the e-book publishers may wind up being summarily condemned even if they never agreed on a price or price level...The recent JURIST article by Dan....... [more]

On April 25, 2011, the US District Court for the Western District of Virginia ruled that the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) did not violate the rights of Muslim inmates by prohibiting them from growing beards. The inmate in question, William Couch, had claimed that the follicle restrictio....... [more]

The UN Office for the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) on Monday welcomed a report published by the US Interagency Council on Homelessness (ICH) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) which found that ordinances criminalizing homelessness may violate human rights as well as the Fourth and Eigh....... [more]

On April 24, 2009, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak called for the prosecution of US Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers who drafted four memos which outlined the legal rationale for controversial interrogation techniques used against terrorism suspects by the Central Intelligence Agen....... [more]