JURIST Guest Columnist Stephen Griffin of Tulane Law School says that barely 4 months after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans and dispersed its students and faculty, Tulane Law is re-opening its doors in January and looking forward to renewal of the institution and its community… Tulane Law School will reopen to the public on January [...]

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Documents released Monday by the US Justice Department show that Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. was actively involved in efforts to expand law enforcement powers while employed as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Reagan administration's Justice Department. The memos show that Alito argued for stronger penalties for violent civil rights violations; [...]

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Ecuador's new Supreme Court justices are set to be sworn in during a ceremony in front of the international monitors that oversaw their selection. The 31-justice court has been without permanent members since last December, when then-President Lucio Gutierrez disbanded the Court amidst allegations of it being biased against him. Gutierrez later had the Ecuadorian [...]

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President George W. Bush Monday called for more stringent Mexican border controls and rejected the idea that his immigration proposals would allow amnesty for illegal immigrants, while at the same time vowing to keep the US "a welcoming society" and a "compassionate nation that values the newcomer." Bush's proposed temporary worker program has been criticized [...]

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Leading Tuesday's international brief, the Nepal Supreme Court has issued a stay order preventing the Nepalese Ministry of Information and Communication from enforcing its decision to close down Radio Sagarmatha for carrying BBC's Nepal Service. The radio station's offices and broadcasting facilities were raided Monday and five employees were arrested on charges of violating the [...]

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