DOJ charges US citizens, Russian intelligence officers with conspiracy to act as foreign agents
A federal grand jury in Florida Tuesday released a superseding indictment against four US citizens and three Russian nationals for conspiring with the Russian government to act as unregistered foreign agents. The conspiracy was called a “multi-year foreign malign influence campaign,” according to a press release from the US Department of Justice (DOJ). The first [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Fred K. Nkusi of the Independent Institute of Lay Adventists of Kigali and Mount Kenya University in Rwanda argues that the twentieth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide is a period of mourning for those lost as well...
Understanding the Problems in Iraq's Shi'i Draft Personal Status Law
Haider Ala Hamoudi, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi Tuesday remanded to state court the Mississippi attorney general's lawsuit against the administrator of the British Petroleum (BP) $20 billion...
The UK Parliament on Thursday approved the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill , making it more difficult for ordinary citizens to obtain arrest warrants for suspected war criminals present in the UK. The controversial act [AP...
Not the Better Part of Valor: Obama's Duty to Prosecute Torturers
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that President Obama's expressed intent to immunize CIA employees who violated US laws banning torture and cruel treatment while interrogating prisoners breaches the President's constitutional duty to "take...
Texas death penalty out of step with public attitudes in post-Baze America
Bryan McCann : "When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Baze v. Rees case that Kentucky's lethal injection protocol did not constitute cruel and unusual...
Former Enron broadband division chief Kenneth Rice was sentenced to 27 months in prison Monday and ordered to forfeit almost $15 million as part of a plea deal with prosecutors for...
The US District Court for the Southern District of Texas sentenced Enron Broadband Services former COO Kevin Hannon to two years in prison Monday. Hannon, who was charged along with four other former Enron executives and...
Ex-Enron accounting head reports to Texas prison for six-year fraud sentence
Richard Causey , former Enron chief accounting officer, has reported to the Bastrop Federal Correction Institution , a low-security facility in Texas, to begin serving his prison sentence for his role in the...
