Federal court agrees to review challenge to domestic spying lawsuit
The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that it would review a lower court decision allowing a class action lawsuit filed against the Bush administration's domestic...
Federal court agrees to review challenge to domestic spying lawsuit
The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that it would review a lower court decision allowing a class action lawsuit filed against the Bush administration's domestic...
ACLU challenge to federal child protection law goes to trial
The federal bench trial of a lawsuit challenging the 1998 Child Online Protection Act (COPA) began Monday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania . The American Civil Liberties...
Federal panel sends consolidated NSA surveillance suits to San Francisco judge
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has ordered that seventeen cases challenging the legality of the NSA's domestic surveillance program be transferred to the chief judge of the US Northern District of...
Federal judge delays wiretapping suit pending DOJ state secrets appeal
US District Judge Vaughn Walker of the Northern District of California on Tuesday temporarily stayed a class action lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against AT&T, pending the appeal ...
DOJ appeals ruling allowing NSA wiretapping lawsuit to proceed
Lawyers from the US Department of Justice on Monday appealed a federal court decision that allowed a challenge to the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program to go forward, arguing to the...
ACLU chronicles post-9/11 surveillance of political activists
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has released a list of secret government surveillance operations focusing on war protestors and other political activists in northern and central California from September 2001 through July 2006 [timeline,...
Rejection of DOJ motion to dismiss telecom surveillance lawsuit [US DC]
Tash Hepting et al. v. AT&T et al., United States District Court for the Northern District of California, US District Judge Vaughn Walker, July 20, 2006 [rejecting a US Department of Justice motion to dismiss on state secrets grounds a...
Judge rejects DOJ bid to dismiss NSA wiretapping suit against telecom giant
A federal judge Thursday rejected a US Department of Justice (DOJ) motion to dismiss on state secrets grounds a class action lawsuit brought against...
Supreme Court rules on deportation, employment retaliation cases
The US Supreme Court handed down four decisions Thursday, including Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales , where the Court held that a federal immigration law authorizing deportation can be applied to...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist and British human and medical rights activist Dr. David Nicholl, a neurologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, says that the recent hunger strike and now suicides by prisoners held by the US at Guantanamo Bay highlight...