Search Results for: 2006-06-28

The Israeli military arrested seven Palestinian Cabinet ministers and some 20 lawmakers Thursday as tensions mounted between Israel and Palestinians sparked by the Sunday abduction of Israeli soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit in Gaza. Israel...

Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon and Bustillo v. Johnson, Supreme Court of the United States, June 28, 2006 [holding that suppression of statements given to the police is not an appropriate remedy when police fail to inform foreign nationals of their right...

Beard v. Banks, Supreme Court of the United States, June 28, 2006 [holding that the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections could set regulations forbidding the most difficult inmates from reading and possessing general-interest newspapers and magazines, despite arguments that such regulations...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour denounced human rights abuses committed during the war on terror Friday, urging governments to give terror suspects a fair trial and reminding them of the "absolute ban on torture"...

US District Judge Sim Lake has delayed the sentencing of former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling until October 23. Lake agreed on Friday to a motion filed by the defense team...

A Chinese court Thursday sentenced Yang Xiaoging, a reporter for the state-run China Industrial Economy News , to one year in prison after finding him guilty of extortion. Xiaoging wrote articles about official corruption, accusing...

Fourteen of the 17 Canadian men arrested on terror charges , including five teenagers, appeared Monday in the Ontario Court of Justice , where lawyers for some of the adult suspects complained that their clients had been...

A committee of the Kenyan National Assembly has shelved the latest version of a long-pending anti-terrorism bill , saying it will not be debated until the United States accepts responsibility for attacks on American interests in...

JURIST Guest Columnist Nancy Rapoport, dean of the University of Houston Law Center, says that although the convictions of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling in the Enron corporate fraud trial offer several important lessons, it's not clear that all of...

CNN is reporting that the jury in the 16-week criminal fraud and conspiracy case against Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling has found both defendants guilty. Lay and Skilling were charged with multiple...