Gerry Spence , the lawyer for Brandon Mayfield, the Muslim-convert Portland attorney arrested and accused of involvement in Madrid's 2004 terrorist bombings, said in court Friday that FBI agents intentionally withheld information from a judge in order to obtain a material witness arrest warrant for his client. Spence said the government did not disclose that [...]
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The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was correct in denying a nonprofit group's petition to regulate industrial gases and automobile emission pollutants that contribute to global warming . After the EPA rejected the request by the International Center for Technology Assessment , several states and cities [...]
Shays, et al. v. Federal Election Commission , US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, July 15, 2005 . Read the full text of the opinion here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, et al., US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, July 15, 2005 . Excerpt: Hamdan claims that AR 190-8 entitles him to have a "competent tribunal" determine his status. But we believe the military commission is such a tribunal. The regulations specify that such a "competent tribunal" shall be [...]
Ranchers Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America v. US Department of Agriculture, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, July 14, 2005 . Read the full text of the opinion here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
A new report by the American Progress Fund has savaged US television news networks for covering trivial legal stories such as the "runaway bride" and the Michael Jackson trial at the expense of important matters such as the genocide allegedly taking place in the Darfur region of Sudan , where a two-year conflict has killed [...]
UK Home Office minister Hazel Blears announced in a letter to opposition leaders released late Friday that the British government plans to create new criminal offenses covering incitement and the teaching or receiving of terrorist training in an effort to prosecute criminals before they commit terrorist acts. Under the proposed laws, it will also be [...]
Leading Friday's states brief, the Wisconsin Supreme Court today extended the "risk contribution theory" to lead paint manufacturers and allowed the suit of a 15-year old boy who can't prove which manufacturer produced the paint that may have injured him to continue. Risk contribution theory allows those who can not trace their injuries to a [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Friday upheld US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's ruling that regulations imposed by the Federal Election Commission undercut the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law . In September 2004 the FEC was forced to draft 15 new rules, including stronger regulations of advertisement fundraising by outside groups. [...]
A strong majority in Jordan’s House of Deputies , the country's lower house of parliament , voted Thursday to reject an extradition agreement between Jordan and the US. The vote followed several lawmakers' speeches blasting the United States for the occupation of Iraq by US forces and American support for Israeli policy in Palestinian territories. [...]
