A New York federal judge Friday issued a highly-unusual classified ruling rejecting a defense motion to dismiss a US case brought against two Albany mosque members originally charged with money laundering and supporting terrorism after their arrests in a government sting operation. The designation of the ruling as secret and not merely sealed means that [...]

Pentagon officials said Friday that the force-feeding of hunger-striking detainees at Guantanamo Bay would continue despite opposition from doctors who signed an open letter published in the British medical journal Lancet earlier this week. The letter, endorsed by 263 doctors from seven countries , called for the US to halt force-feeding by stomach tubes and [...]

After a day and half of deliberation a federal jury Friday found former mayor of Atlanta Bill Campbell not guilty of racketeering, fraud and bribery charges, although he was found guilty on three counts of tax evasion. Campbell, mayor from 1994 to 2002, was charged two years later with taking bribes of more than $160,000 [...]

Courtney Murphy : "Like so much in New Orleans, both pre- and post-Katrina, the Juvenile Court system is a dichotomy, its two faces coexisting uneasily. Looking at the system as it is now, I feel hope and also an overwhelming despair. Our supervisor is with the Juvenile Court in order to reform the system and [...]

A federal judge ruled Friday that former vice-presidential Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby be given limited access to presidential security briefing transcripts to assist him in his defense against perjury charges in the CIA leak case . Libby claims that he was so busy with security matters around the time of the leak [...]

Press release, Slobodan Milosevic found dead in his cell at the detention unit, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, March 11, 2006 . Read the full text of the statement. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic , on trial at The Hague for genocide and war crimes , has died suddenly, according to the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia . The cause of death is not yet known. The Tribunal has issued the following statement:Today, Saturday 11 March 2006, Slobodan Milosevic was found lifeless on [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that what is most important about the trial of Slobodan Milosevic in the wake of his sudden death in jail is not its lack of outcome, but rather the hope its example holds for future justice against other dictators… The sudden death of [...]

UN General Assembly President Jan Eliasson has postponed until next week a scheduled plenary to approve the proposed UN Human Rights Council , the body anticipated to take the place of the severely-criticized UN Commission on Human Rights. Eliasson had hoped to have a draft resolution on the Council approved by the time the next [...]

US v. Zacarias Moussaoui, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Judge Leonie M. Brinkema, March 10, 2006 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.