UPDATE ~ Mexican presidential hopeful will surrender to authorities
Following up a story reported Friday on JURIST's Paper Chase, Mexico City mayor and presidential hopeful Manuel Lopez Obrador announced to reporters outside of his home Saturday that he will surrender to authorities as soon as...
The two main parties in Mexico's Congress joined forces late Thursday to strip Mexico City's mayor Manuel Lopez Obrador of immunity so he can be charged with contempt of court, threatening his bid for the presidency in...
International brief ~ Kyrgyz elections postponed as parliament mulls Akayev trial
Leading Thursday's international legal news, the continuing dispute over how to remove former Kyrgyzstan President Askar Akayev has resulted in the postponement of the national elections originally scheduled for June. Akayev signed legal resignation papers Monday [JURIST...
Thousands protest in support of Mexico City mayor as vote looms
Tens of thousands on Thursday protested in Mexico City in support of popular Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador , who announced his presidential candidacy this morning, but could be barred from running by an expected congressional...
Chile's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet cannot be prosecuted over the killing of his predecessor as Chile's army chief, General Carlos Prats . The ruling reverses a...
A federal appeals court has ruled that a controversial law requiring prisoners, parolees, and others on probation to submit DNA samples to an FBI DNA identification database in constitutional. Judge Jane R. Roth, for the US Third...
BREAKING NEWS ~ Federal judge puts Schiavo tube re-insertion on hold
CBS-10 TV in Tampa is reporting that US District Judge James Whittemore has ended this afternoon's hearing on Terri Schiavo's parents' petition for the re-insertion of her feeding tube pending a federal hearing of her case without making a...
Forty-seven people, including senior aides to French President Jacques Chirac , face corruption charges for allegedly rigging public works contracts to finance political parties. The trial, which begins Monday in Paris, concerns one of several campaign finance scandals...
Ziad al-Khasawneh, head of Saddam Hussein's legal defense team, said Tuesday that plans to try Saddam before the Iraqi Special Tribunal are illegitimate. Al-Khasawneh said that the tribunal does not meet the requirements for a fair and...
The Supreme Court Monday granted certiorari to a case raising the question of when plaintiffs can sue in federal court, as opposed to state court. The question has lately sparked an important political debate, as plaintiffs often prefer to...
