Legal Commentary

UN SG urges Israel to end 'disproportionate' attacks in Gaza Strip
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official website] Thursday condemned Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip [BBC backgrounder] and called on Israel to end its use of "disproportionate and excessive force" against Palestinians...

UN Human Rights Chief Calls for Immediate Lifting of Israeli Blockade of Gaza Strip
On 18th November, 2008, Navi Pillay, the UN Human Rights Commissioner called for an immediate end to the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. Pointing out that the Israeli action was a flagrant violation of International Law and denied the residents of Gaza their most basic human rights, Ms...

UN rights chief calls for Israel probe of Palestinian deaths in Gaza airstrikes
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official profile] Monday called on Israel [press release] to conduct an impartial investigation into the deaths of Palestinians during recent Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip [BBC backgrounder], noting that as an occupying power Israel "bears a particular responsibility under international human rights and humanitarian law to

Rights group accuses US of insufficient response to Gaza violence
[JURIST] Human rights group Amnesty International USA on Friday accused the US of insufficiently responding to the Gaza crisis in a letter sent to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...

Gaza Petition and More Resources
Philosopher Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins) calls my attention to this petition about the atrocities in Gaza, and adds: "if you are interested, here are two links to the only two Israeli/Jewish groups that came out unequivocally against the barbarism of...

"Civil" Wars
In a fascinating feature in today's NYTimes, Ethan Bronner succeeds in capturing the incredibly complex interplay of law and war, courts and gun battles, in the three-way civil war we usually abbreviate as the Israel-Palestine conflict...

Medical Tubing Errors Leading to Adverse Events Including Death
Medical Tubing Errors Leading to Adverse Events Including Death

Taser Death
allegedly directly causing or leading to complications resulting in death.

Newspaper Employees
Chinese Daily News must pay $5.19 million class action settlement for failing to pay overtime.

Newspaper Publisher
Star Tribune must pay St. Paul Pioneer Press a $3.8 million trade secrets act violations settlement.