Search Results for: 2004-05-13

French president Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday announced plans to end the country's use of magistrate-led investigations in criminal cases. Sarkozy made the announcement at the annual...

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled on Tuesday that existing US Food and Drug Association (FDA) regulations do not preempt a New Jersey woman's state claim that she was...

JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of Ave Maria School of Law, Ann Arbor, MI, says that a viable Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and Strategic Framework Agreement between the US and Iraq governing future US troop presence in the country...

A US District Court Judge Thursday ordered US Marine Corps Sgt. Ryan G. Weemer jailed for refusing to testify about the deaths of Iraqi detainees during the Multinational Force-Iraq's November 2004 offensive in Fallujah...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Thursday commended the US Supreme Court for its ruling that federal courts have jurisdiction to review habeas corpus petitions filed by Guantanamo detainees...

A Dutch appeals court Wednesday overturned the convictions of seven men who were charged with being in a terrorist network that included Muslim extremist Mohammed Bouyeri . Bouyeri confessed to the November 2004 murder [BBC report;...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday denied without comment the petition for certiorari filed by Khaled el-Masri against the US government, ostensibly supporting the Bush administration's contention that allowing el-Masri's lawsuit [complaint,...

Serbia will increase efforts to locate and arrest several war criminals to curry a favorable report from Carla Del Ponte, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) when she advises EU officials...

The Libyan Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentences of six foreign medics accused of knowingly infecting over 400 Libyan patients with the HIV virus. The court's decision will now be considered by...

The case of six foreign medics who were sentenced to death last year for infecting hundreds of children in a Libyan hospital with AIDS has been settled, according to the Gaddafi Foundation ...