Britain's House of Commons will vote Wednesday on legislation that will allow the UK to place terror suspects under house arrest without trial. Under the Prevention on Terrorism Bill , which was published Tuesday , terror...
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Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Wednesday, Feb. 23.The US Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in two cases beginning at 10 AM ET today. In...
Iraq: Decades of Suffering, Amnesty International, February 22, 2005 . Excerpt:Women and girls in Iraq live in fear of violence...
United States v. Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, Eastern District of Virginia, February 22, 2005 . Read the full text of the indictment . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....
Smith v. Massachusetts, Supreme Court of the United States, February 22, 2005 . Excerpt from the majority opinion by Justice Scalia:The Double...
Stewart v. Dutra Construction Co., Supreme Court of the United States, February 22, 2005 for purposes of seeking personal injury compensation under the...
President Bush has urged European leaders to reconsider plans to end a 15-year-old arms embargo on China, arguing that it could jeopardize US security guarantees for Taiwan. Bush was expected to press the issue during his visit to the...
In Tuesday's environmental law news, over 400 food products in the UK have been revealed to be contaminated with the industrial food dye Sudan 1 by the Food Standards Agency...
A report issued Tuesday by the International Atomic Energy Agency urges that nuclear fuel production should not be left under the control of individual countries. An expert panel assigned to consider nonproliferation of nuclear technology found that...
The Egyptian government failed to release the names of an estimated 2,400 people detained in the wake of terror attacks last fall and has since tortured many of the detainees, according to a report issued Tuesday by Human Rights...
