Summary of the Opinion on Unauthorized Outposts, former State Attorney Talia Sasson, submitted to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon March 8, 2005 . Read the full text of the Summary . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Gun Control and Terrorism, Government Accountability Office report, January 2005, released March 8, 2005 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Iran's Supreme Court has lifted a ban that has kept reformist newspaper Neshat from publishing since 1999. The newspaper was shut down after it criticized the country's penal system, which is based on Islamic Sharia law. Many of the newspaper's staff were arrested in the crackdown, including a two-and-a-half year jail term for publisher Latif [...]

Federal lawmakers from Florida have introduced legislation that would allow federal courts to hear habeas petitions involving an incapacitated person whose life support is expected to be removed, allowing the parents of Terri Schiavo to challenge state court rulings allowing her husband to have her feeding tube removed. FL Sen. Mel Martinez, with support from [...]

Indonesia and East Timor's presidents agreed Wednesday to establish a commission to investigate human rights abuses that led to the deaths of more than 1,000 East Timorese in 1999. The Truth and Friendship Commission will be made up of five delegates from each country, and is expected begin its work in August. The Commission will [...]

Florida Tuesday opened its case against Alliance Capital Management , the company charged with investing the state's employee pension fund in plunging Enron stock. The Florida State Board of Administration alleges gross negligence, breach of contract and three other state charges stemming from the fund's $313 million dollar loss caused by continued investment in the [...]

In a warning that could portend further legal trouble, Japan's Fair Trade Commission said Tuesday that computer chip manufacturer Intel should cease practices that violate Japan's Anti-Monopoly Act by pressuring Japanese companies to buy its chips. The commission based its ruling on deals Intel offered to Japanese computer makers, providing discounts if they purchased exclusively [...]

In a Supreme Court report to the National People's Congress, China's Chief Justice Xiao Yang said the Supreme People's Court would "further perfect second-instance judgments for criminal cases and death penalty review procedures." The government has suggested that the Supreme Court establish a special tribunal to review death penalty decisions. Currently, the lower courts administer [...]

The vast majority of Tunisia's 1400 lawyers went on a one-day strike Wednesday to protest alleged police brutality last week when 200 police stormed a Tunis court to remove 50 lawyers gathered in opposition to an upcoming visit by Israli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for the UN-sponsored World Information Summit . Sharon will be the [...]

A Israeli government-commissioned study of Jewish settlements on the West Bank submitted Tuesday and made public Wednesday has concluded that 105 outposts are illegal, including 54 built on land not belonging to the Israeli state, of which 15 built on established Palestinian property must be removed immediately. The report by former state prosecutor Talia Sasson [...]