Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukoych Friday filed one last appeal over the December 26 presidential re-vote with the Ukrainian Supreme Court in a final legal bid to stop the inauguration of opposition leader and apparent election winner Viktor Yushchenko . Ukraine's Central Election Commission certified the vote last week, but the Supreme Court stepped [...]

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Friday, January 14. At the United Nations, the Security Council will meet at 10 AM ET for closed consultations on Iraq. The trial of Fatmir Limaj and his co-defendants continues Friday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. [...]

World Report 2005, Human Rights Watch, released January 13, 2005 . Excerpt: No one would equate the two, yet each, in its own way, has had an insidious effect. One involves indifference in the face of the worst imaginable atrocities, the other is emblematic of a powerful government flouting a most basic prohibition. One presents [...]

Selman, et al. v. Cobb County School District, United States District Court for Northern Georgia, Judge Clarence Cooper, January 13, 2005 . Excerpt: In the instant case, it is undisputed that the Cobb County School Board used the money of taxpayers to produce and place the Sticker in dispute in certain of the Cobb County [...]

Following up on JURIST report from earlier today, US Bankruptcy Judge Stephen Mitchell has now approved a deal between US Airways and the federal Air Transportation Stabilization Board , extending the government's financing of the troubled airline until June 30. The previous deal between the parties was set to expire Saturday. Executives for the airline [...]

Israel's High Court of Justice issued a temporary injunction Thursday instructing state workers "to refrain from all uprooting of trees or orchards and digging, paving, leveling, construction or other preparations" for the erecting of the security fence between Israel and Palestinian areas of the West Bank between Jerusalem and Maccabim. The halt on construction was [...]

Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that in response to numerous complaints, the agency should investigate the legality of commentator Armstrong Williams' failure to disclose $240,000 received from the Bush administration to plug the No Child Left Behind Act . The deal required the production and airing of one-minute advertisements by [...]

The defense for US Army Spc. Charles Graner rested its case Thursday afternoon without Graner testifying on his own behalf during his court-martial at Fort Hood . Graner had been expected to testify that he had been ordered by military and civilian intelligence agents to soften up detainees at Abu Ghraib prison for further questioning. [...]

In Thursday's international brief, Somalia's parliament has approved the proposed cabinet of Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi Thursday in a crucial step towards establishing a truly functioning government for the trouble-ridden country. The proposed list was the second offering from Ghedi; his first selections were rejected by parliament, which claimed that Ghedi had not followed [...]

Human Rights Watch has released its 2005 human rights report surveying human rights developments in more than 60 countries in 2004. The report says that worldwide system for protecting human rights was significantly weakened in 2004 by the crisis in Darfur and the Abu Ghraib scandal:No one would equate the two, yet each, in its [...]