The Serbian government has called for the prosecution of Bosnian military officer Atif Dudakovic after a Serbian television station broadcast a video Tuesday that allegedly shows Dudakovic ordering his troops to burn a Serb village in 1995. The Dudakovic video follows last week's broadcast of a video that allegedly shows the unprovoked murder of a [...]

The Jakarta Court of Appeal has ruled that Indonesian Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh was correct to drop a corruption case against former President Suharto , citing Suharto's inability to speak or write due to permanent brain damage . Saleh appealed a lower court ruling in a lawsuit filed by several human rights groups . [...]

Captain Alex Pickands, a US military lawyer prosecuting four US Army soldiers for the March 12 rape of a 14-year old Iraqi girl and the murder of the girl and her family in Mahmudiya , told a military panel in Baghdad during closing arguments on Tuesday that combat stress had nothing to do with the [...]

US District Judge Vaughn Walker of the Northern District of California on Tuesday temporarily stayed a class action lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against AT&T, pending the appeal of his earlier decision allowing the case to move forward. The EFF lawsuit alleges that AT&T violated citizens' rights to privacy and several federal statutes [...]

The American Bar Association approved a resolution Tuesday condemning President Bush for his "misuse" of bill signing statements to bypass particular provisions of a bill that the president considers unconstitutional or a risk to national security. Last month, an ABA task force released a report with recommendations on signing statements, saying in an accompanying press [...]

Proposed amendments drafted by the Bush administration to revise the War Crimes Act would protect CIA officers, former military personnel and political appointees from prosecution for humiliating and degrading treatment of wartime detainees, according to a report in Wednesday's Washington Post. The 1996 War Crimes Act makes it a felony to violate the Geneva Conventions [...]

State of Nevada v. Department of Energy, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, August 8, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey on Tuesday ruled 5-1 that the state's Charitable Immunity Act , which protects non-profit organizations from ordinary negligence claims, permits plaintiffs to sue non-profits on sex abuse claims stemming from willful, wanton or grossly negligent conduct. The underlying case, Hardwicke v. American Boychoir School, involved an adult male suing [...]

The UN Security Council approved a resolution Tuesday that encourages Secretary-General Kofi Annan to work more closely with the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) . All 15 Security Council members voted for Resolution 1699 , co-sponsored by the US, Britain and Denmark, which says that more cooperation would increase the effectiveness of UN sanctions such [...]

Zimbabwean Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa's obstruction-of-justice trial began Tuesday, eight days after the charges were tentatively dropped because of alleged intimidation of magistrates by Security Minister Didymus Mutasa. Chinamasa is accused of pressuring witnesses not to testify about political violence linked to Mutasa before parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe last year. After magistrates in Manicaland recused [...]