The UN Security Council Thursday unanimously voted to send over 10,000 peacekeepers to Sudan in an effort to monitor a peace deal intended to end a 21-year civil war. The resolution sidesteps issues regarding sanctions for war crimes in the country's Darfur region. In late January, a UN backed council declared that crimes against humanity, [...]
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US District Judge James Whittemore has denied a second emergency request from Terri Schiavo's parents to reconnect the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube. Whittemore denied a first request on Tuesday , but after that was unsuccessfully appealed all the way to the US Supreme Court lawyers for the Schindlers filed an amended complaint on new legal [...]
Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Friday, March 25. Today is Good Friday, and most UN, EU and many US government offices and courts are closed for the holiday. The US Senate and US House are in recess until April 4.
Internet Communications, Federal Elections Commission , March 24, 2005 . Read the full text of the draft guidelines here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
In re Schiavo v. Schindler, Circuit Court for Pinellas County, Judge George Greer, March 24, 2005 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Letter from the Secretary-General to the President of the General Assembly, United Nations, March 24, 2005 . Excerpt: In particular, the revelations in 2004 of sexual exploitation and abuse by a significant number of United Nations peacekeeping personnel in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have done great harm to the name of peacekeeping. Such [...]
AP is reporting that the Florida Supreme Court has refused to overturn Judge George Greer's order of earlier this afternoon blocking the Florida Department of Children and Familes from taking custody of Terri Schiavo. Read the order .
The former head of security for fallen Russian oil giant Yukos has been convicted of murder and attempted murder in a Russian court, the first conviction among former Yukos executives being held in Russia. Lawyers for Alexei Pachugin, who was accused of carrying out murders for Leonid Nevzlin , Yukos' second-largest shareholder, have announced that [...]
The Federal Election Commission took tentative first steps in regulating Internet political activity Thursday by calling for public input on limited campaign guidelines for the medium. While commissioners expressed a reluctance to regulate online speech in any way, draft guidelines issued by the commission suggest making campaign finance rules and other regulations found in other [...]
France said Thursday that it will delay a UN Security Council vote on its proposed resolution that would ensure that any Darfur war crimes trials are held at the International Criminal Court . France drafted its resolution to counter the US position in favor of establishing an ad-hoc tribunal operating from Tanzania. The delay puts [...]
