Georgia South Ossetia offensive violated international law: EU commission
October 1, 2009
[JURIST] Georgia violated international law when it shelled the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali in August 2008, according to a report [materials] released Wednesday by a European Union-backed commission. The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia (IIFFMCG) [of....... [more] 
Supreme Court orders lower court to consider death row habeas case
August 17, 2009
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday ordered [text, PDF] a federal court in Georgia to consider the case of death row inmate Troy Anthony Davis [defense website]. Davis had filed an original writ of habeas corpus [cert. petition, PDF] directly in the Suprem....... [more]
Federal court convicts US citizen on terrorism charges
August 12, 2009
[JURIST] A federal court in Atlanta on Wednesday found American Ehsanul Islam Sadequee guilty [press release] on four terrorism-related counts. Sadequee was convicted in the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia [official website] of providing material support to a foreign terrorist....... [more]
Ohio conducts 1,000th US lethal injection since death penalty reinstatement
July 22, 2009
[JURIST] Convicted murderer Marvallous Keene on Tuesday became the 1000th person to be executed by lethal injection in the US since the death penalty was reinstated in the 1976 case of Gregg v. Georgia [opinion text]. In 1993, Keene was found guilty of five counts of murder based on his participatio....... [more]
Georgia court overturns custody order barring contact with parent's gay friends
June 17, 2009
[JURIST] The Supreme Court of Georgia [official website] reversed [opinion, PDF] Monday a lower court's order in a divorce case that prohibited the children of a divorced father to be in contact with his gay and lesbian acquaintances. The court disagreed with the qualified visitation rights granted....... [more]
US citizen linked to Canada terror suspects convicted on conspiracy charges
June 10, 2009
[JURIST] A naturalized American citizen believed to have ties to a Canadian terrorist cell was convicted [DOJ press release] Wednesday of conspiracy to commit terrorism in the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia [official website]. Syed Haris Ahmed was found guilty of conspiracy t....... [more]
DOJ rejects Georgia voter verification requirements
June 3, 2009
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] has rejected Georgia's system of voter citizenship verification by way of a Social Security and driver's license database. In a letter [text, PDF] released Monday, Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King told Georgia Attorney Gene....... [more]
War crimes probe of South Ossetia conflict urged again
January 23, 2009
[JURIST] Both Russia and Georgia must investigate possible violations of the laws of war during and after the week-long South Ossetia conflict in August 2008, according to a report released Friday by Human Rights Watch (HRW). The report, entitled"Up in....... [more]
Eleventh Circuit upholds Georgia voter ID law
January 15, 2009
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday upheld a Georgia law that requires voters to present government-issued photo identification in order to vote. The suit was filed by two elderly voters in Georgia, the National....... [more]
Georgia court jails Muslim woman for not removing head scarf
December 17, 2008
'[JURIST] A Muslim woman in the US state of Georgia was arrested Tuesday and ordered to serve 10 days in jail for contempt of court after she refused to remove her headscarf, or hijab, upon entering a security checkpoint in an Atlanta courtroom........ [more]
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