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In a Slate article published Wednesday, legal ethicists Stephen Gillers, David Luban and Steven Lubet claim that the White House violated the law when it interviewed Judge John Roberts this spring for the US Supreme...

JURIST Guest Columnist Darryll Jones, former criminal trial attorney for the US Army Judge Advocate General and now a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, says that the recent ruling of the US DC Circuit Court...

Press statement on resumption of military commissions, US Department of Defense, July 18, 2005 . Excerpt:The Office of Military Commissions...

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, et al., US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, July 15, 2005 . Excerpt:Hamdan claims that AR 190-8 entitles him to have a "competent tribunal"...

AP is reporting that a US federal appeals court has ruled that Guantanamo detainees may be tried by military commissions. Read the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals opinion in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. JURIST's Paper Chase provides background...

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit hears arguments Thursday on the legality of military commission trials of terror suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base . Last November, US District Judge James Robertson ordered...

According to military and Bush administration officials, the US Department of Defense is considering substantial changes to the tribunal process at Guantanamo Bay for foreign terror suspects. The changes, designed in response to widespread criticism...

AP is reporting that the US Supreme Court denied Tuesday an appeal over government's use of military trials for foreign detainees accused of terrorism. JURIST's Paper Chase will have more information as the order list becomes available.10:45 AM ET...

Salim Ahmed Hamden v. Donald H. Rumsfeld, United States District Court of the District of Columbia, Judge James Robertson, November 8, 2004. Excerpt:Salim Ahmed Hamdan petitions for a writ of habeas corpus, challenging the lawfulness of the Secretary of Defense's...

Judge James Robertson of the US District Court of the District of Columbia has stopped Guantanamo military commission proceedings against Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's bodyguard and driver from 1996 to 2001, on the grounds that they are unlawful...