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document.write('<p class="rss_title"><a class="rss_title" href="http://jurist.org/paperchase" target="_blank">JURIST - Paper Chase</a><br /><span class="rss_item">JURIST\'s legal news service, powered by a team of over 40 law student reporters and editors led by Professor Bernard Hibbitts at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.</span></p>');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://jurist.org/paperchase/2010/07/thailand-court-issues-new-arrest-warrant-for-ex-pm.php" title="[JURIST] The criminal division of the Thai Supreme Court [GlobaLex backgrounder] on Thursday issued a new arrest warrant for ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. The warrant comes at the request of the National Anti..." target="_blank">Thailand court issues new arrest warrant for ex-PM</a><br />');
document.write('[JURIST] The criminal division of the Thai Supreme Court [GlobaLex backgrounder] on Thursday issued a new arrest warrant for ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. The warrant comes at the request of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) [official website], which charges that Thaksin did not report all of his assets to the commission after the February ruling of the Constitutional Court [official website, in Thai] seizing 46.4 billion baht (USD $1.4 billion) [JURIST report] in assets for abuses of power while in office. The Supreme Court also suspended proceedings against Thaksin [Bangkok Post report] until he...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://jurist.org/paperchase/2010/07/aclu-urges-obama-administration-to-repudiate-bush-era-civil-rights-policies.php" title="[JURIST] The Obama administration is in danger of entrenching some of the most draconian aspects of the Bush administration\'s controversial national security policy, warns a new report, [text, PDF; press release] from the American Civil Liberties Union (..." target="_blank">ACLU urges Obama administration to repudiate Bush-era national security policies</a><br />');
document.write('[JURIST] The Obama administration is in danger of entrenching some of the most draconian aspects of the Bush administration\'s controversial national security policy, warns a new report, [text, PDF; press release] from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] [press release] released Thursday. The report, titled \"Establishing a New Normal: National Security, Civil Liberties, and Human Rights Under the Obama Administration,\" concludes that the first 18 months of the Obama White House betray a civil rights record that is \"mixed, at best.\" Though the group concedes that \"the Obama administration inherited a legal and moral morass\" and has had...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://jurist.org/paperchase/2010/07/france-president-announces-new-measures-against-illegal-roma.php" title="[JURIST] French President Nicolas Sarkozy [official website, in French] on Wednesday ordered measures [press release] against illegal Roma [JURIST news archive] communities in France and announced new legislation aimed at making their deportation easier. ..." target="_blank">France president announces new measures against illegal Roma</a><br />');
document.write('[JURIST] French President Nicolas Sarkozy [official website, in French] on Wednesday ordered measures [press release] against illegal Roma [JURIST news archive] communities in France and announced new legislation aimed at making their deportation easier. The announcement comes a week after riots by members of the Roma community sparked by the shooting of a young man, resulting in the deployment of 300 troops [DW report]. The government aims to dismantle half of illegal Roma camps in the country within three months and to immediately deport of all those found to have broken the law. In explaining the need for the measures,...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://jurist.org/paperchase/2010/07/sri-lanka-court-holds-first-hearing-in-case-of-ex-army-chief.php" title="[JURIST] The High Court of Sri Lanka [official website] on Thursday conducted the first hearing in the case against former army chief Sarath Fonseka [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], who is accused of provoking violence and bringing disrepute to the gov..." target="_blank">Sri Lanka court holds first hearing in case against ex-army chief</a><br />');
document.write('[JURIST] The High Court of Sri Lanka [official website] on Thursday conducted the first hearing in the case against former army chief Sarath Fonseka [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], who is accused of provoking violence and bringing disrepute to the government. The charges are in relation to statements made to the Sunday Leader [media website] newspaper, which suggested that the government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa [BBC profile] ordered the killing of surrendering rebel leaders during the Sri Lankan civil war [CFR backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. At the hearing, the court issued 20 summons [DPA report] for witnesses to appear at...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://jurist.org/paperchase/2010/07/spain-judge-orders-arrest-of-us-troops-suspected-of-shooting-journalist-in-iraq.php" title="[JURIST] Spanish National Court Judge Santiago Pedraz issued an arrest warrant [text, in Spanish; PDF] Thursday for three US troops suspected of gunning down Spanish journalist Juse Couso [advocacy website, JURIST news archive] in Iraq. Couso, a televisio..." target="_blank">Spain judge orders arrest of US troops suspected of shooting journalist in Iraq</a><br />');
document.write('[JURIST] Spanish National Court Judge Santiago Pedraz issued an arrest warrant [text, in Spanish; PDF] Thursday for three US troops suspected of gunning down Spanish journalist Juse Couso [advocacy website, JURIST news archive] in Iraq. Couso, a television cameraman, was killed in 2003 when a US tank fired into the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. The 3rd Division infantrymen named in the warrant, Sgt. Shawn Gibson, Capt. Philip Wolford and Lt. Col. Philip de Camp, maintain that they fired into the hotel at what they thought was an enemy combatant because they were being fired upon. A US military investigation has...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://jurist.org/paperchase/2010/07/eleven-accused-somali-pirates-plead-not-guilty-in-us-court.php" title="[JURIST] A group of suspected Somali pirates [JURIST news archive] pleaded not guilty Wednesday before the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia [official website]. The defendants, six Somali men alleged to have been involved in the April..." target="_blank">Accused Somali pirates plead not guilty in US court</a><br />');
document.write('[JURIST] A group of suspected Somali pirates [JURIST news archive] pleaded not guilty Wednesday before the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia [official website]. The defendants, six Somali men alleged to have been involved in the April attack on the USS Ashland in the Gulf of Aden, pleaded not guilty to charges of piracy and assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon. Attorneys for the men argue that they could not have committed piracy because they did not seize or plunder the ship [CP report]. The charge of piracy carries a mandatory life sentence if convicted....');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://jurist.org/paperchase/2010/07/russia-president-signs-bill-expanding-secret-police-powers.php" title="[JURIST] Russian President Dmitry Medvedev [official website; JURIST news archive] on Thursday signed into law [press release, in Russian] a bill that will grant controversial new powers to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the Russian Federatio..." target="_blank">Russia president signs bill expanding secret police powers</a><br />');
document.write('[JURIST] Russian President Dmitry Medvedev [official website; JURIST news archive] on Thursday signed into law [press release, in Russian] a bill that will grant controversial new powers to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the Russian Federation\'s successor to the former USSR\'s KGB [GlobalSecurity backgrounders]. The bill, which the Russian parliament approved [JURIST report] earlier this month, will give the FSB authority to question citizens about actions that may create the conditions for a crime and issue warnings [DW report] not to engage in unapproved acts. Noncompliance may be punishable by fine or up to 15 days in prison. The...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://jurist.org/paperchase/2010/07/bangladesh-high-court-outlaws-religious-parties.php" title="[JURIST] The Bangladeshi Supreme Court [official website] on Wednesday overturned a constitutional amendment [judgment, PDF] that had allowed religious parties to participate in politics. The court, upholding a lower court decision, held that the Fifth Am..." target="_blank">Bangladesh high court outlaws religious parties</a><br />');
document.write('[JURIST] The Bangladeshi Supreme Court [official website] on Wednesday overturned a constitutional amendment [judgment, PDF] that had allowed religious parties to participate in politics. The court, upholding a lower court decision, held that the Fifth Amendment to the Bangladeshi Constitution [text], which allowed the participation of religious political parties and legitimized military rule, violated the principle of secularism and representative democracy found in the Constitution\'s preamble. Relying heavily on the US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] decision of Marbury v. Madison [text] to reinforce the notion of judicial review, the court found that the supremacy of the Constitution...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://jurist.org/paperchase/2010/07/us-house-approves-bill-to-reduce-cocaine-sentencing-disparity.php" title="[JURIST] The US House of Representatives [official website] approved a bill Wednesday that would reduce the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses. The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 [S 1789 materials] would amend existing law to redu..." target="_blank">US House approves bill to reduce cocaine sentencing disparity</a><br />');
document.write('[JURIST] The US House of Representatives [official website] approved a bill Wednesday that would reduce the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses. The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 [S 1789 materials] would amend existing law to reduce the current sentencing ratio from 100:1 to 18:1. Under the existing law passed in 1986, an individual possessing five grams of crack cocaine would receive a mandatory five-year prison sentence, while an individual possessing powder cocaine would need to have 100 times that amount to receive the same sentence. Human Rights Watch [advocacy website] praised [press release] the bill\'s passage, stating...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://jurist.org/paperchase/2010/07/un-declares-access-to-safe-drinking-water-a-basic-human-right.php" title="[JURIST] The UN General Assembly [official website] on Wednesday adopted a resolution [materials] declaring that access to clean and sanitized drinking water is a basic human right [press release]. The resolution, passed by a vote of 122-0 with 41 member ..." target="_blank">UN declares access to safe drinking water a basic human right</a><br />');
document.write('[JURIST] The UN General Assembly [official website] on Wednesday adopted a resolution [materials] declaring that access to clean and sanitized drinking water is a basic human right [press release]. The resolution, passed by a vote of 122-0 with 41 member states abstaining, also requires the UN Independent Expert on the issue of human rights obligations related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation, Catarina de Albuquerque [official profile], to report to the General Assembly annually. The initiative promotes progress to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) [official website] to reduce social and economic harms by 2015, including decreasing the number...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://jurist.org/paperchase/2010/07/us-house-approves-commission-to-reform-criminal-justice-system.php" title="[JURIST] The US House of Representatives [official website] on Wednesday passed a bill [HR 5143 materials] that would create a bipartisan commission [press release] charged with reviewing the US criminal justice system. The commission would also propose r..." target="_blank">US House approves commission to reform criminal justice system</a><br />');
document.write('[JURIST] The US House of Representatives [official website] on Wednesday passed a bill [HR 5143 materials] that would create a bipartisan commission [press release] charged with reviewing the US criminal justice system. The commission would also propose reforms and promote the reduction and prevention of violence and crime. According to House sponsor Bill Delahunt (D-MA) [official website], the US incarcerates 2.3 million people, with prison costs soon reaching $75 billion. Delahunt praised the passage in the House, asserting that the bill \"will assess the current crisis, reverse these disturbing trends and help save taxpayer money.\" Currently pending in the US...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://jurist.org/paperchase/2010/07/uk-appeals-court-rules-terror-suspects-may-sue-over-wrongful-control-orders.php" title="[JURIST] The UK Court of Appeal [official website] ruled [decision text] Wednesday that two terrorism suspects can sue the government for damages over wrongfully imposed control orders [Guardian backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. The appellants, known on..." target="_blank">UK appeals court rules terror suspects may sue over wrongful control orders</a><br />');
document.write('[JURIST] The UK Court of Appeal [official website] ruled [decision text] Wednesday that two terrorism suspects can sue the government for damages over wrongfully imposed control orders [Guardian backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. The appellants, known only as AF and AE due to the sensitive nature of the intelligence related to their cases, have been fighting their control orders, which confine them essentially to house-arrest conditions, for nearly two years. Last year, the UK House of Lords [official website] ruled that the Home Secretary [official website] had to provide the suspects with more information about the evidence against them to satisfy...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://jurist.org/paperchase/2010/07/federal-judge-enjoins-sections-of-arizona-immigration-law.php" title="[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Arizona [official website] on Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction [order, PDF] against several provisions of a controversial Arizona immigration law [SB 1070 materials; JURIST news archi..." target="_blank">Federal judge enjoins provisions of Arizona immigration law</a><br />');
document.write('[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Arizona [official website] on Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction [order, PDF] against several provisions of a controversial Arizona immigration law [SB 1070 materials; JURIST news archive], which is set to take effect Thursday. The injunction comes at the request of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website], which filed its suit challenging the constitutionality of the law [JURIST report] earlier this month. Judge Susan Bolton rejected the DOJ\'s argument that the law should be enjoined in its entirety, finding that the individual provisions of the law were...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://jurist.org/paperchase/2010/07/russia-court-bans-youtube-for-extremist-content.php" title="[JURIST] A Russian court on Wednesday made public a ruling banning access to five websites, including the video-sharing network Youtube [website], for what it calls extremist elements. A court in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur obliged the local Internet p..." target="_blank">Russia court bans YouTube for extremist content</a><br />');
document.write('[JURIST] A Russian court on Wednesday made public a ruling banning access to five websites, including the video-sharing network Youtube [website], for what it calls extremist elements. A court in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur obliged the local Internet provider Rosnet to block access to the sites in its region of the country, citing Russia\'s anti-extremism laws [RT report, video]. The decision came after a video entitled \"Russia for Russians,\" also a Russian extremist slogan, was posted on YouTube. The other sites were blocked [Moscow Times report] for containing excerpts of Adolf Hitler\'s book Mein Kampf [Britannica backgrounder], which was banned...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://jurist.org/paperchase/2010/07/germany-prosecutor-charges-former-nazi-camp-guard.php" title="[JURIST] Prosecutor Christoph Goeke of the German city of Dortmund announced Wednesday that former Nazi guard Samuel Kunz has been charged in relation to the murder of nearly half a million people during the Nazi regime. Kunz, who has admitted to working ..." target="_blank">Germany prosecutor charges former Nazi camp guard</a><br />');
document.write('[JURIST] Prosecutor Christoph Goeke of the German city of Dortmund announced Wednesday that former Nazi guard Samuel Kunz has been charged in relation to the murder of nearly half a million people during the Nazi regime. Kunz, who has admitted to working at the Belzec concentration camp [HRP backgrounder] from 1942-1943, is accused of helping to murder 430,000 Jewish people [Al Jazeera report] during his time at Belzec, and of shooting 10 other people in separate incidents. Kunz maintains that he never personally murdered anyone [JTA report]. Kunz has been called as a witness in the case of fellow accused...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://jurist.org/paperchase/2010/07/china-orders-police-to-stop-public-shaming-of-prisoners.php" title="[JURIST] The Chinese Ministry of Public Security [official website, in Chinese] issued an order Monday directing the country\'s police forces to abandon the practice of publicly shaming suspects and prisoners. The order [Xinhua report, in Chinese] stems f..." target="_blank">China orders police to stop public shaming of prisoners</a><br />');
document.write('[JURIST] The Chinese Ministry of Public Security [official website, in Chinese] issued an order Monday directing the country\'s police forces to abandon the practice of publicly shaming suspects and prisoners. The order [Xinhua report, in Chinese] stems from public response to an incident [Xinhua report, in Chinese] earlier this month when officers in the southern city of Dongguan paraded roped and handcuffed suspected prostitutes down a city street in the middle of the day, posting pictures of the event on the internet. Many Internet posters, increasingly leery of corruption in Chinese law enforcement [JURIST news archive], expressed outrage at the...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://jurist.org/paperchase/2010/07/japan-to-conduct-review-of-capital-punishment.php" title="[JURIST] Japanese Justice Minister Keiko Chiba [Japan Times profile] on Wednesday announced a review of Japan\'s death penalty [JURIST news archive] and the opening of execution chambers to the media. The announcement came after Chiba witnessed the execut..." target="_blank">Japan to review use of capital punishment</a><br />');
document.write('[JURIST] Japanese Justice Minister Keiko Chiba [Japan Times profile] on Wednesday announced a review of Japan\'s death penalty [JURIST news archive] and the opening of execution chambers to the media. The announcement came after Chiba witnessed the execution [Japan Times report] of two convicts at the Tokyo Detention House. The review will examine the issue of capital punishment from all angles, according to Chiba, and will include members of the Justice Ministry [official website, in Japanese] in addition to experts who will be asked to participate. Critics have claimed Chiba, who opposes the death penalty, had political motivations in ordering...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://jurist.org/paperchase/2010/07/nebraska-city-council-suspends-immigration-law-pending-litigation.php" title="[JURIST] The Fremont City Council [official website] on Tuesday voted unanimously to suspend an ordinance [No 5165 text] banning hiring, harboring or renting property to illegal immigrants [JURIST news archive] pending the outcome of litigation challengin..." target="_blank">Nebraska city council suspends immigration law pending litigation</a><br />');
document.write('[JURIST] The Fremont City Council [official website] on Tuesday voted unanimously to suspend an ordinance [No 5165 text] banning hiring, harboring or renting property to illegal immigrants [JURIST news archive] pending the outcome of litigation challenging its constitutionality. The ordinance would require all employers in the city to register for the E-Verify program [DHS website] and would make it a crime to rent to illegal immigrants. It would also void any lease entered into by an illegal immigrant and would require every person seeking to rent residential property to obtain an occupancy permit from the city, which would require the...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://jurist.org/paperchase/2010/07/us-senate-fails-to-advance-campaign-finance-reform-bill.php" title="[JURIST] The US Senate [official website] on Tuesday failed to end debate over the campaign finance reform legislation [S 3628 materials]. The vote of 57-41 [roll call vote] fell short of the supermajority required to overcome a filibuster [Senate backgro..." target="_blank">US Senate fails to advance campaign finance reform bill</a><br />');
document.write('[JURIST] The US Senate [official website] on Tuesday failed to end debate over the campaign finance reform legislation [S 3628 materials]. The vote of 57-41 [roll call vote] fell short of the supermajority required to overcome a filibuster [Senate backgrounder], and reportedly makes passage before the November elections unlikely [POLITICO report], despite statements to the contrary by supporters. Supporters argue that the legislation is a necessary response to the January US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission [JURIST report], which eased restrictions on political campaign spending by corporations. If signed into...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://jurist.org/paperchase/2010/07/ge-agrees-to-settle-sec-complaint-in-oil-for-food-scandal.php" title="[JURIST] General Electric Co. (GE) [corporate website] on Tuesday agreed to a $23.5 million settlement [press release] after the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) [official website] filed a complaint [text, PDF] accusing GE of bribing Iraqi offi..." target="_blank">GE agrees to settle SEC complaint in oil-for-food scandal</a><br />');
document.write('[JURIST] General Electric Co. (GE) [corporate website] on Tuesday agreed to a $23.5 million settlement [press release] after the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) [official website] filed a complaint [text, PDF] accusing GE of bribing Iraqi officials to receive contracts under the UN Oil-for-Food program [official website; JURIST news archive]. The SEC claimed that, between 2000 and 2003, four of GE\'s subsidiaries gave millions of dollars worth of computer equipment, medical supplies and services to the Iraqi Health Ministry in exchange for contract deals. The complaint described the impact of GE\'s actions:The Oil for Food Program was intended to...');
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