According to a senior United Nations official, top Kyrgyz officials promised Monday not to forcibly deport Uzbek refugees who fled a bloody May uprising in Andijan . Approximately 450 of the 500 Uzbeks who originally fled to Kyrgyzstan remain, with four of the refugees deported earlier this month against UN objections. Assistant UN High Commissioner [...]
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Advanced Micro Designs (AMD) announced Tuesday that it has filed a federal anti-trust lawsuit against rival chip-maker Intel . The suit was filed yesterday in US District Court in Delaware and alleges that Intel bullied 38 companies into using Intel products to gain a monopoly in the microprocessor market. Intel holds an 80 percent market [...]
Nepal's anti-corruption panel has cleared ex-prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and six former ministers of charges of misusing funds. According to a spokesman for the corruption commission, there was not enough evidence to find the accused guilty. Deuba and another former minister, Prakash Man Singh nontheless remain in jail for an additional corruption charge relating [...]
An American-born Israeli soldier who refused to participate in the evacuation of settlers from Gaza will face a disciplinary hearing on Tuesday, pending a possible continuance by his lawyer. Cpl. Avi Bieber was pulled away by fellow soldiers on Sunday after telling his commander he wouldn't participate in the evacuation and shouting support to settlers, [...]
A Milan judge Tuesday sentenced 11 men to up to two and a half years in jail for their roles in one of Europe's biggest financial scandals, the 2003 collapse of Parmalat . Based upon a plea bargain, the convicted men, including founder Calisto Tanzi, former chief financial officers Alberto Ferraris and Luciano Del Soldato, [...]
A Muslim Russian national held at Guantanamo from summer 2002 to February 2004 has filed a lawsuit against the US government alleging rights abuses. At a press conference on Tuesday in Moscow Airat Vakhitov – formerly an imam at a mosque in Tatarstan – said the abuses, such as being denied sleep, were mostly psychological [...]
Pakistan's Supreme Court Tuesday overturned the acquittals of 13 men in a gang-rape case and ordered them re-arrested after an appeal by the victim, Mukhtar Mai . The attack was supposedly ordered by village elders in retaliation for an affair her brother had with a higher-caste woman. At first, six men were convicted and sentenced [...]
National Cable and Telecommunications Association v. Brand X Internet Services, et al.; FCC v. Brand X Internet Services, et al., Supreme Court of the United States, June 27, 2005 . Read the full text of the opinion here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Castle Rock v. Gonzales, Supreme Court of the United States, June 27, 2005 . Excerpt from the opinion, by Justice Scalia: We conclude, therefore, that respondent did not, for purposes of the Due Process Clause, have a property interest in police enforcement of the restraining order against her husband. It is accordingly unnecessary to address [...]
Van Orden v. Perry, United States Supreme Court, June 27, 2005 . Excerpt from the opinion, by Chief Justice Rehnquist: The placement of the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds is a far more passive use of those texts than was the case in Stone, where the text confronted elementary school students [...]
