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JURIST Guest Columnist Brian Foley of Florida Coastal School of Law says that while senators are likely to query Judge Samuel Alito this week about his views on executive power, they themselves have dangerously indulged it without setting clear limitations,...

AP is reporting that the US Supreme Court has ordered that Jose Padilla be transferred from military to civilian custody. Padilla was detained over three years ago for allegedly planning to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb"...

Lawyers for so-called "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla have responded to the government's contention that Padilla's US Supreme Court appeal is moot and should be denied, insisting that his...

Jose Padilla , a US citizen charged with planning to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" in the US, will not face those charges because US officials obtained evidence against him using torture on two al-Qaida members, according...

JURIST Guest Columnist Richard Edwards, Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK, says that the new Terrorism Bill presented to Parliament by the Blair government in the wake of the London bombings...

JURIST Guest Columnist Stephen Vladeck of the University Miami School of Law says that a narrow interpretation of the US Supreme Court's classic 1866 ruling against military tribunals in Ex parte Milligan might actually be in the best interest of...

Mexican prosecutor Ignacio Carrillo has made a second bid to arrest former Mexican president Luis Echeverria in connection with killings of student protesters, according to a statement made Monday by Echeverria's lawyer. Dozens of students and other...

A federal judge in Argentina has ordered the arrest of a former military leader in the investigation into the death of a student during the country's "Dirty War" in the late 1970s. The judge...

Jose Padila v. C.T. Hanft, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, September 9, 2005 [reversing a lower court, denying Padilla's habeas appeal and holding that the "dirty bomb" suspect, who is also a US citizen, can be...

AP is reporting that the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the habeas appeal of Jose Padilla , ruling that the "dirty bomb" suspect can be detained without charges indefinitely. Padilla's attorneys had challenged his...