The European Court of First Instance Wednesday ruled that the European Union can freeze the assets of suspected terrorists under its treaty powers . The court dismissed complaints from alleged al Qaeda associates, Yassin Abdullah Kadi, Ahmed Ali Yusuf, and the Al Barakaat International Foundation, who had their bank accounts blocked by the EU. The [...]

Iranian Vice President Gholamreza Aghazadeh said Wednesday that Tehran does not plan to leave the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty , despite threats from its nuclear negotiator Tuesday. Iran , which has opposed the attempts of the US and Europe to refer Iran to the UN Security Council for alleged failures and breaches of the treaty, met [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Scott Gerber of Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law says that while Judge John Roberts, Jr., President Bush's nominee for Chief Justice of the United States, may have trouble building consensus on the fractured US Supreme Court, it is unlikely any lower court appellate judge could do better… First things first. [...]

The Michigan Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence and other gun control advocates are gearing up to block a Michigan bill that would allow people to use deadly force for self-defense. Earlier this year, the groups were unable to block similar legislation in Florida . The National Rifle Association is working for the deadly-force legislation to [...]

The US Defense Department said Tuesday that it has banned military officers and intelligence analysts from testifying on "Able Danger" , the highly classified US Army intelligence program alleged to have identified Mohammed Atta and three other 9/11 hijackers as suspected al-Qaeda terrorists prior to the 9/11 attacks . The personnel were scheduled to testify [...]

The Authors Guild, et al., v. Google, Inc., United States District Court Southern District of New York, September 20, 2005 . Read the full text of the complaint here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Common Cause/Georgia, et al. v. Billups, et al., United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, September 19, 2005 . Read the full text of the complaint here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The US Defense Department Tuesday directed that suspended military commission proceedings against Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks be resumed following a July US appeals court ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that military commission trials did not have to be predicated by a ruling on terror detainees' POW status by another "competent tribunal". Hicks has been [...]

The Authors Guild , an advocacy organization for published writers, together with a former Poet Laureate, a Lincoln biographer and a children's book author, Tuesday sued search engine and advertising giant Google alleging "massive copyright infringement at the expense of the rights of individual writers." The class action suit filed in federal court in Manhattan [...]

The Saudi National Organization for Human Rights, the only human rights watchdog in Saudi Arabia , said Tuesday it has been banned from visiting Saudi prisoners in the US terror detention camp at Guantanamo Bay . Dr. Bandar bin Mohammed, head of the group, said the US ambassador in Riyadh would not allow the group [...]