Search Results for: 2004-07-09

The Giza Criminal Court on Thursday ordered the release of former Egyptian prime minister Ahmed Nazif . Nazif was convicted of corruption in July 2011 and sentenced to one year in jail. In September Nazif...

David Frakt, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

The Montana Supreme Court on Monday affirmed a lower court's dismissal of a lawsuit seeking legal status for same-sex relationships. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) originally filed suit in July...

Heather Barr, Human Rights Watch

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that MoneyGram International, Inc. entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the DOJ. According to the DOJ, MoneyGram admitted "to criminally aiding and...

JURIST Guest Columnist Katie McLay, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2014, is an officer for the University of Pittsburgh School of Law's Federalist Society. She compares and contrasts the current controversy surrounding two salient constitutional issues: gun...

An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced former Egyptian prime minister Ahmed Nazif to three years in prison after finding him guilty of corruption charges. Nazif was accused of embezzling $10.5 million while in office. This most recent conviction will...

JURIST Guest Columnist Tung Yin of Lewis & Clark Law School says that the government's unwillingness to clearly define which activities would make someone a 'covered person' under section 1021 of the NDAA likely resulted in a US District Court...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Tuesday reduced the sentence of Aloys Ntabakuze , a former Rwandan army officer convicted of genocide and related crimes, and affirmed the sentences of...

A Libyan military commander filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against former UK Justice Minister Jack Straw alleging that the minister was instrumental in his illegal rendition to Libya, where he was tortured under the regime of Muammar...