http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/ JURIST's weblog of legal news and resources worth thinking about, by Professor Bernard Hibbitts and law students at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. 2008-05-11T19:52:00-04:00 en-US http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/05/pakistan-party-talks-on-restoring.php [JURIST] Talks between Pakistani party leaders meeting in London to discuss a parliamentary resolution to restore superior court judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf under his proclamation of emergency last November collapsed Sunday despite last-minute intervention by a US envoy [PTI 2008-05-11T19:52:00-04:00 2008-05-11T19:52:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/05/top-pentagon-legal-adviser-disqualified.php [JURIST] A US military judge has ruled that US Air Force Reserve Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann [JURIST report], a top Pentagon legal adviser on the Guantanamo military commission trials, is ineligible to participate in the first military commission trial of a detainee because he is too closely 2008-05-10T20:28:00-04:00 2008-05-11T19:52:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/05/pakistan-facing-uncertainty-as-second.php [JURIST] Pakistani ministers and officials scrambled Sunday as a second deadline for restoring judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf in November loomed with little prospect of being met. An aide to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who has pressed hard for the reinstatement [JURIST 2008-05-10T18:00:00-04:00 2008-05-11T19:52:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/05/myanmar-holds-constitution-referendum.php [JURIST] The military junta of Myanmar held a national referendum on a draft constitution [JURIST news archive] Saturday despite sharp international criticism [JURIST report] for going ahead with the poll after a devastating cyclone last weekend left at least 60,000 people dead or missing. Voting 2008-05-10T16:36:00-04:00 2008-05-11T19:52:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/05/peru-prosecutors-complain-fujimori.php [JURIST] Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], currently on trial for human rights violations during his three terms in office from 1990-2000, is showing lack of respect for the court and the trial process by his courtroom behavior, Peruvian prosecutors 2008-05-10T12:49:00-04:00 2008-05-11T19:52:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/05/japan-lower-house-passes-bill-lifting.php [JURIST] Japan's House of Representatives [official website, in Japanese] Friday approved a measure easing legal restrictions on placing Japanese military technology in space. The House of Councillors [official website, in Japanese] is expected to pass the bill as well. MPs say that current 2008-05-09T16:24:00-04:00 2008-05-11T19:52:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/05/pakistan-leaders-fail-to-agree-on.php [JURIST] Talks between the leaders of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) [party websites] in London Friday failed to produce an agreement on a draft resolution for reinstating judges ousted by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf last year, but party 2008-05-09T16:06:00-04:00 2008-05-11T19:52:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/05/microsoft-appeals-eu-antitrust-fine.php [JURIST] Microsoft [corporate website; Microsoft EC archives] announced Friday that it has filed an appeal with the European Court of First Instance [official website] in hopes that it will annul the record fine [press release] of 899 million euros ($1.3 billion). The penalty [JURIST report] was 2008-05-09T14:29:00-04:00 2008-05-11T19:52:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/05/eu-parliament-head-slams-possible-court.php [JURIST] European Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering [official website] Thursday slammed a bid by Chief Prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya [official profile, in Turkish] to have the country's ruling Islamic Justice and Development Party (AKP) [party website, in Turkish] legally dissolved 2008-05-09T14:16:00-04:00 2008-05-11T19:52:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/05/myanmar-junta-urges-citizens-to-approve.php [JURIST] Myanmar's ruling junta Friday urged the country's citizens to approve the military-backed draft constitution in an upcoming Saturday national referendum [JURIST news archives] that the government has refused to reschedule despite a devastating cyclone last week that may have left up to 2008-05-09T12:07:00-04:00 2008-05-11T19:52:00-04:00