Crime in the United States 2004, Federal Bureau of Investigation, October 18, 2005 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
A lawyer who has worked with Saddam Hussein's defense team said Monday that the defense will likely begin pre-trial proceedings on Tuesday by once again requesting a six month delay. The defense is expected to argue that it has not been given 45 days to review all prosecution documents as provided by Rule 45 of [...]
Dora B. Schriro, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections v. Robert Douglas Smith, Supreme Court of the United States, October 17, 2005 . Read the per curiam opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Susan Wood, former director of the US Food and Drug Administration's Department of Women’s Health said Monday that the FDA’s refusal earlier this year to consider over-the-counter sales of Plan B , also known as the morning-after pill, was based on political considerations rather than scientific facts. Wood, who resigned in August in protest over [...]
A tax reform interest group chairman says that the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform created last January to consider alternatives to the current US income tax system will probably not recommend any major changes to the code when it submit its report to the Treasury Department by November 1st. The panel is considering [...]
According to an attorney for former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) , prosecutors in his case offered DeLay a deal that would have allowed him to plead guilty to misdemeanor charges, thus avoiding felony charges of money laundering and criminal conspiracy. In a letter from defense attorney Dick DeGuerin to Travis County District Attorney [...]
In a White House meeting Monday with visiting Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov , President Bush urged the Libyan government to release five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death for intentionally causing an AIDS outbreak at a Benghazi children's hospital in 1999. The story made international headlines last year when the court deciding the case seemingly ignored [...]
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has taken the unusual step of criticizing the state case against Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk , calling his prosecution for "public denigration of Turkish identity" contrary to the efforts of the government to extend greater individual rights to citizens, including freedom of religion and expression. Pamuk, whose work often examines [...]
After being signed into law by President Bush last April, an overhauled US bankruptcy law goes into effect Monday making it more difficult for consumers to prove that they should be allowed to clear their debts and make a "fresh start." The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 was prompted by concerns [...]
Iranian officials have approved the basic outlines of a "single-urgency" bill providing for the suspension of Iran's voluntary implementation of the Additional Protocol to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) . Mahmoud Mohammadi, a member of the Iranian commission that approved the changes, said the government would suspend the Additional Protocol "if the International Atomic Energy [...]