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- U.S. Marshals Service Deputy Convicted for Federal Civil Rights Violation After Striking a Handcuffed Suspect
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2007, or TDD: +1- 202-514-1888 WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Rena J. Comisac and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeffrey A. Taylor announced today that Stephen Cook, 32, a deputy with the...
- Research articles 2007-10-30
- Regulating the research enterprise: international norms and the right to bodily integrity in human experiment litigation
- ABSTRACT: This article analyzes international law claims in human subject litigation, arguing that the failure of federal courts or Congress to oversee this kind of litigation by providing or recognizing a federal cause of action for research torts is an injustice. It is about two distinct and somewhat arcane areas...
- Research articles 2007-09-22
- Punishment by the people: rethinking the jury's political role in assigning punitive damages.
- INTRODUCTION In the past decade the Supreme Court did something--twice--it has never done before: it struck down a punitive damages award for violating the United States Constitution. (1) In each case, the awards had been determined by an elaborate choreography, including the parties and...
- Research articles 2007-02-01
- Integrating Title 18 war crimes into Title 10: a proposal to amend the Uniform Code of Military Justice
- I. INTRODUCTION II. THE DEVELOPMENT OF MILITARY LAW A. From the Articles of War to the Uniform Code of Military Justice: A Brief History ...
- Research articles 2005-12-22
- What Would Zimbabwe Do?
- In 1999 one of the scores of death-row appeals that land at the Supreme Court each year caught the eye of Justice Stephen Breyer. Thomas Knight, who had been sentenced to death by the State of Florida in 1975 for killing a married couple, argued in the appeal that he...
- Research articles 2005-11-01
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Conviction.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-2 May 2005-US STATE DEPARTMENT: International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ConvictionC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:29042005 The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda sentenced Mikaeli Muhimana on April 28 to life imprisonment, the maximum punishment permissible. He was found guilty of genocide...
- Research articles 2005-05-02
- Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide Between America and Europe.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- HARSH JUSTICE: CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT AND THE WIDENING DIVIDE BETWEEN AMERICA AND EUROPE. By James Q. Whitman. New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. Pp. viii, 311. $39.95. The spring 2004 release of the grusome pictures of sexual humiliation and torture at Abu Ghraib prison outside...
- Research articles 2005-05-01
- Stealth Islamist: Khaled Abou El Fadl.
- Which Muslims in the West support Islamism; which do not? Those who have Al-Qaeda connections or deal in terrorism are relatively easy to classify, once they are found out. The state has ways to investigate and punish illegal activities. In September 2003, for example,...
- Research articles 2004-03-22
- The reason behind the rules: finding and using the philosophy of the federal sentencing guidelines.
- I. INTRODUCTION A. Finding and Using the Federal Philosophy of Sentencing B. How the Guidelines' Philosophy Got Lost 1. The Critics Speak ...
- Research articles 2003-01-01
- Sub skipper likely to face administrative punishment
- WASHINGTON, April 16 Kyodo The commander of the U.S. submarine that collided with a Japanese fisheries training ship in February is likely to appear within days for a non-criminal hearing and could face administrative punishment such as demotion, NBC television reported Monday. A decision by...
- Research articles 2002-07-01
- The pathological politics of criminal law.
- INTRODUCTION Substantive criminal law defines the conduct that the state punishes. Or does it? If the answer is yes, it should be possible, by reading criminal codes perhaps with a few case annotations thrown in, to tell what conduct will land you in prison....
- Research articles 2001-12-01
- Dead Reckoning : A WORLD EFFORT TO FORCE AN END TO THE US DEATH PENALTY IS GAINING STRENGTH.
- Dinan, Brittany This walled medieval city in France's ancient Breton heartland is the last place anyone would look for evidence of a coming transformation in US law. German and British tourists crowd the old stone streets and file through the twelfth-century Church of St....
- Research articles 2001-08-06
- DoD News Briefing -- Part 2 of 2.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-18 April 2001-US DOD: DoD News Briefing -- Part 2 of 2 C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:17042001 Q: Craig, there seems to be a little bit of an agenda disconnect between what the Chinese are saying is the agenda and...
- Research articles 2001-04-18
- Critiquing Laidlaw: congressional power to confer standing and the irrelevance of mootness doctrine to civil penalties.(standing in environmental lawsuits)
- The Supreme Court's decision in Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc.(1) has been described accurately as a victory for citizens seeking access to federal court to enforce the Clean Water Act.(2) The decision makes the "standing" inquiry a mildly burdensome hurdle for...
- Research articles 2001-03-22
- How to keep military personnel from going to jail for doing the right thing: jurisdiction, ROE & the Rules of Deadly Force - Rules of Engagement
- "[T]he willingness of our men and women in uniform to put their lives at risk is a national treasure. That treasure can never be taken for granted...."(1) Introduction A United States military patrol proceeds as trained-alert, camouflaged, and unified. They know the rules of engagement. They follow the...
- Research articles 2000-11-01
- bill of attainder clause: A new weapon to challenge the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, The
- Abstract: SeaRiver Maritime, Exxon Oil Company's United States shipping subsidiary, recently challenged section 5007 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 as a bill of attainder. SeaRiver Maritime is the owner and operator of the former Exxon Valdez, which was renamed the SeaRiver Mediterranean following the Valdez's infamous spill in...
- Research articles 2000-10-01
- The Articles of War and the UCMJ - widespread court martial cases in World War II led to the enactment of the Uniform Code of Military Justice
- MAJ LISA L. TURNER, USAF [*] LT WILLIAM R. SINCOCK and Lt Theodore Q. Halides were not the first US servicemen to mistakenly drop bombs on a neutral country during World War II. [1] They were, however, the first and apparently only airmen to be court-martialed for dereliction of...
- Research articles 2000-09-22
- Fair notice, even for terrorists: Timothy McVeigh and a new standard for the ex post facto clause
- Although it is not likely that a criminal will carefully consider the text of the law before he murders or steals, it is reasonable that a fair warning should be given to the world in language that the common world will understand, of what the law intends to do if...
- Research articles 1999-04-01
- The treaty power and American federalism.
- The US implementation of its treaty-making power during most of the 20th century runs contrary to the tenets of federalism. Federal laws are constitutionally limited by the federal government's relationship to the states and by the federal government's specifically enumerated powers. US legislators need to determine whether, in an age...
- Research articles 1998-11-01
- Will Europe test US on executions?
- Some states fear they will lose billions in business as the European Union pressures the United States to end capital punishment. Several European companies with investments in the United States are under pressure to withdraw them from states in which capital punishment is enforced, according to members of...
- Research articles 1998-08-10
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