The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday upheld language used in homeowner insurance policies by State Farm Fire and Casualty, overturning a district court ruling that the policy language was ambiguous and consequently unenforceable. The three-judge circuit panel held that the policy's anti-concurrent causation clause clearly state that excluded losses – [...]

JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that lawyers around the world should show solidarity with the lawyers of Pakistan in their remarkable resistance to arbitrary power and lawlessness in the wake of General Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule… It is time for lawyers worldwide to show solidarity with [...]

The US Department of Justice filed an appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Tuesday against the dismissal of immigration fraud charges against anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles . US District Judge Kathleen Cardone ruled in May that the Carriles' indictment should be dismissed because the US government's tactics in its [...]

The US District Court for the District of Columbia denied a motion Tuesday to dismiss a lawsuit against CACI International , an American military contractor being sued over its alleged involvement in the torture of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison . Judge James Robertson did however dismiss a similar lawsuit against Titan , another [...]

Turkish Justice Minister Mehmet Ali Sahin said Tuesday that a new bill to reform a controversial law that criminalizes insults to Turkish identity will go before the Turkish parliament soon. He did not say how exactly the bill would alter the law. Critics contend Turkey has used the law to silence government critics, a practice [...]

Order, Supreme Court of Pakistan, November 6, 2007 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The Uruguayan Senate passed a bill Tuesday that partially decriminalizes abortion , but the proposal may not have the support needed to override the veto promised by Uruguyan President Tabare Vazquez . According to the draft law, a mother may terminate her pregnancy during the first 12 weeks to prevent risks to her health, birth [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Tuesday issued a one-sentence ruling rejecting an appeal from Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr challenging a US Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR) decision to send Khadr's case back to a military tribunal. In June, a military commission judge dropped war crimes charges against Khadr as [...]

Human rights groups, including the The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, on Tuesday called for a government investigation into a fire that killed at least 32 prisoners in northern Argentina on Sunday following a riot at the facility. The government claims that the fire, which detainees at the Santiago del Estero facility started, was part [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in Federal Express Corp. v. Holowecki , 06-1322, to determine whether an age discrimination lawsuit against FedEx was filed properly. FedEx seeks to overturn a US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decision holding that an "intake questionnaire" submitted to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) [...]