Search Results for: 1994-01-05

Four female service members filed suit Tuesday against the US Army and the Department of Defense to end a policy which bars women from combat units and related posts. The suit, filed in the US...

The US Supreme Court added six cases to its docket on Monday, including a rare grant of certiorari in two pro se cases. In Levin v. United States , the court will consider whether...

JURIST Guest Columnist Wael Lafee, an LL.M. student at the Univeristy of Pittsburgh, is the author of the twelfth entry of a 14-part series from the LL.M. students of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He explains Palestine's unique...

The Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit Thursday on behalf of several inmates over solitary confinement policies at a California prison Security Housing Unit (SHU). The defendants are California Governor Jerry Brown, the Secretary...

JURIST Guest Columnists Hassan Jabareen and Sawsan Zaher of Adalah argue that the political polarization of the Citizenship and Entry Into Israel Law deflects the real constitutional and legal issues at the heart of the controversy...Raneen, a 36 year-old Palestinian...

The Canadian government on Monday deported Rwandan war crimes suspect Leon Mugesera, after a Quebec Superior Court judge ruled that the court did not have jurisdiction to rule on immigration cases. Mugesera, who has been fighting deportation...

Judge Claudia Wilken of the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled on Friday that California prison officials have failed to protect disabled parolees by not providing them wheelchairs and other mobility assistance devices....

A special anti-terrorist court at the Palais de Justice in Paris began proceedings on Monday in the trial of alleged terrorist "Carlos the Jackal" accused of planning numerous bombings throughout France in the early 80s. Venezuelan-born Ilich...

A Finnish appeals court on Monday began hearing the appeal of former Rwandan pastor Francois Bazaramba , convicted last year on charges relating to his involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide [HRW backgrounder; JURIST news...

An Argentine judge on Thursday charged former president and current senator Carlos Menem for allegedly covering up evidence related to the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires....