US military officials are citing a recent overview of information obtained from Guantanamo detainees as evidence that the military should be able to conduct operations at Camp Delta without intervention from the US court system. The unclassified document , quietly released online last month, highlights the results from some 4,000 interrogation reports and the information [...]

The first post-genocide president in Rwanda , Pasteur Bizimungu , begins his appeal process Monday before the Rwandan Supreme Court to challenge his convictions for inciting civil disobedience, associating with criminals and embezzling public funds. Bizimungu is currently serving a 15 year sentence and has continually denied his guilt. Prosecutors are seeking to have the [...]

Recently elected Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said Monday that he would refuse to sign a death conviction for former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein if he is convicted of war crimes. During a BBC television interview Talabani, a lawyer, said he was opposed to the death penalty as a matter of principle and said he might [...]

Two convicted killers currently on Kentucky's death row begin a court challenge Monday to the state's use of lethal injection as its form of execution. Ralph Baze and Thomas Bowling claim that the use of lethal injection is "cruel and unusual" punishment under the meaning of the Eighth Amendment . Attorneys for the two men [...]

The Congress of Ecuador voted Sunday to disband the country's current Supreme Court following an earlier attempt on Friday to do the same thing by Ecuador President Lucio Gutierrez . Congress decided in an emergency session Sunday night that, since they appointed the interim court members, only they had the power to dismiss them. Congress [...]

Six Pitcairn Island men convicted last year of rape, sexual assault, and indecent assault in one of the most unusual trials in British legal history began their appeal process Monday in the Pitcairn Supreme Court . The six men, four of whom face jail time and two who received hundreds of hours of community service, [...]

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Monday, April 18. The US Supreme Court hears oral arguments in two cases beginning at 10 AM ET today. In the first, Grable & Sons Metal Products v. Darue Engineering , 04-603, the Court will decide whether a state quiet [...]

Florida became the first state in the nation to fully privatize its child welfare program after signing a $75 million contract Friday, transferring management of the last 2 remaining counties under governmental oversight. The agreement with Our Kids allows the private organization to manage all foster care, adoption and child welfare licensing operations in Miami-Dade [...]

Japanese Trade Minister Shoichi Nakagawa said Sunday that a lawsuit in an international court is "one option" for dealing with a Japan-China dispute over natural gas drilling rights in the East China Sea. China has three projects in an area Japan claims as its own. Nakagawa said Japan wants these projects stopped if Japan is [...]

Governor Joe Manchin vetoed a bill on Saturday that would have made English the official language of West Virginia. Gov. Manchin, who has supported such legislation in the past, objected to the bill on the grounds that the state constitution limits legislation to one topic. The original bill was about increasing the size of local [...]