Terror suspect assets freezing judgment [UK SC]
January 26, 2010
Her Majesty's Treasury v. Ahmed, et al., Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, January 26, 2010 [holding that executive orders allowing the government to freeze the assets of suspected terrorists are illegal].Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on....... [more] 
NRO detailed judgment [Pakistan SC]
January 20, 2010
National Reconciliation Ordinance judgment, Supreme Court of Pakistan, January 20, 2010 [granting President Asif Ali Zardari and 8,000 other government officials immunity from charges including corruption, embezzlement, money laundering, murder, and terrorism between January 1986, and October 1999]........ [more]
Blackwater charges ruling [US DC]
December 31, 2009
United States of America v. Slough, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, December 31, 2009 [dismissing voluntary manslaughter and weapons charges against five Blackwater guards indicted for involvement in the deaths of 17 Iraqi civilians in September 2007].Reported in JURIST's Pap....... [more]
School discrimination judgment [UK SC]
December 16, 2009
R (on the application of E) (Respondent) v Governing Body of JFS and the Admissions Appeal Panel of JFS (Appellants), Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, December 16, 2009 [holding that a Jewish school discriminated against a boy by denying him admission because he was not "ethnically Jewish"].Repo....... [more]
Sovereign immunity judgment [Pakistan SC]
December 16, 2009
Constitution Petition Numbers 76-80 of 2007 & 59/2009 and Civil Appeal Number 1094 of 2009 and HRC Numbers14328-P-14331-P & 15082-P of 2009, Supreme Court of Pakistan, December 16, 2009 [striking down the National Reconciliation Ordinance which granted President Asif Ali Zardari and 8,000 other gove....... [more]
Joint criminal enterprise order [ECCC]
December 9, 2009
Order on the Application at the ECCC of the Form of Liability known as Joint Criminal Enterprise, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, December 9, 2009 [allowing the use of the controversial legal concept of joint criminal enterprise to prosecute surviving Khmer Rouge leaders for govern....... [more]
Former Bosnian ambassador extradition holding [2nd Circuit]
December 9, 2009
Sacribey v. Guccione, US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, December 9, 2009 [holding that a US citizen who served as Bosnian ambassador to the UN cannot be extradited to Sarajevo to face charges of embezzlement].Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST h....... [more]
Wal-Mart unionized brach closure judgment [Canada SC]
November 27, 2009
Plourde v. Wal-Mart Canada Corp., Supreme Court of Canada, November 27, 2009 [upholding the right of Wal-Mart, Inc. to close its operations in Jonquiere, Quebec, shortly after a union attempted to organize employees in 2005].Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JU....... [more]
Bank overdraft fee challenge judgment [UK SC]
November 25, 2009
Office of Fair Trading v. Abbey National PLC, et al., Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, November 25, 2090 [holding that the Office of Fair Trading may not challenge the fairness of bank overdraft fee charges as a matter of law].Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available he....... [more]
Guantanamo detention details ruling [UK QB]
November 20, 2009
Mohammed v. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Queen's Bench, November 19, 2009 [ruling that the details of the detention of Binyam Mohammed in Pakistan in 2002 must be released].Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on Guantan....... [more]
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