President Bush's use of bill signing statements has led to several instances where provisions of laws have been ignored in favor of the Bush administration's interpretation, according to a report released Monday by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) . At the request of Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) and House Judiciary [...]

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said Monday that there were four elements he would not accept in any EU treaty. In remarks made to the House of Commons Liaison Committee , Blair acknowledged that it was an important that the EU "work more effectively" as an organization, but said that it doesn't need a real [...]

Senior UN officials from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Monday urged countries to cooperate in the capture of numerous fugitives who remain at large. Carla Del Ponte, top prosecutor for the ICTY, said that many senior leaders responsible for the most serious crimes [...]

The UN Security Council said Monday it has approved a request by Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to aid his country in the investigation of the murder of anti-Syrian legislator Walid Eido last week. Eido, who was a member of the Lebanese Parliament, was killed last Wednesday when his car exploded at a beach in [...]

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 his testimony against former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling and company founder Kenneth Lay . As CEO of Enron Broadband Services (EBS) , Rice made [...]

EU Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security Franco Frattini Monday said that many EU member states have failed to implement EU legislation to combat corruption by making bribery through an intermediary a criminal offense and updating existing anti-corruption legislation to include non-profit organizations. The EU approved the framework decision on combating corruption in the private [...]

Brendlin v. California, US Supreme Court, June 18, 2007 . Read the Court's unanimous opinion per Justice Souter. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Israeli human rights group B'Tselem called Monday for Hamas leaders in Gaza to investigate and bring to trial anyone who may have committed war crimes , citing reported incidents of violence against children and civilians during last week's fighting between Hamas and Fatah in the Gaza Strip. In their plea, B'Tselem referred to the death [...]

Credit Suisse First Boston v. Billing, US Supreme Court, June 18, 2007 . Read the Court's opinion per Justice Breyer, along with a concurrence from Justice Stevens, and a dissent from Justice Thomas. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The US delegation to the Meetings of the Group of Governmental Experts for the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) said Monday that the United States will not support a ban on the use of cluster munitions , but is open to negotiations to reduce the humanitarian impact by requiring the increased reliability, accuracy and [...]