Search Results for: 1996-03-05

A Greek court on Monday found former defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos guilty of money laundering. The court also rendered guilty verdicts against 16 of Tsochatzopoulos's co-defendants, including his wife, ex-wife and daughter. The charges against...

On September 21, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed DOMA into law. The act defines marriage as between one man and one woman for the purpose of excluding homosexual couples from the institution of marriage. DOMA also exempts state-recognized same-sex marriages...

Alba Morales, Human Rights Watch

Michael Kelly, Creighton University School of Law

A Guatemalan court on Wednesday sentenced a former police chief to 70 years for the kidnapping of a college student during the country's 36-year Civil War . Pedro Garcia was convicted of carrying out the kidnapping of engineering...

JURIST Guest Columnist Julie Nice of the University of San Francisco School of Law says that the Supreme Court's minimalist approach in its gay rights pronouncements has led to the current confusion among courts and lawyers alike over the proper...

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in Evans v. Michigan to determine whether the double jeopardy clause bars retrial after the trial judge erroneously holds a...

JURIST Columnist Charles C. Jalloh of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law examines the role of Alternate Judge El Hadji Malick Sow in Charles Taylor's trial and recent conviction and discusses the implications of Sow's decision to publicly disagree...

Lesbians and transgender men in South Africa face discrimination and fear violence on a daily basis from both private individuals and government officials, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Monday. The report argues...

A three-judge panel sitting for the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Thursday that immigrants who are imprisoned while fighting deportation cannot be held indefinitely without a bail hearing and that the...