Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, as included in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2006 and agreed to by the US House and Senate and signed by President Bush, December 30, 2005 [incorporating the McCain Amendment and the Graham-Levin Amendment...
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Text of Senate Amendment 2516 to S. 1042 (the 2006 defense appropriations bill), US Senate, November 10, 2005 [blocking Guantanamo Bay detainees from challenging their imprisonment in US federal courts, save for claims may brought in the DC Circuit to...
A Missouri circuit court judge ruled Thursday that the state's child abuse registry is unconstitutional because it does not allow alleged abusers a due-process hearing before being placed on the list. The registry is not available to the general...
JURIST Guest Columnist Brian J. Foley of Florida Coastal School of Law says that the less-than-rigorous procedural rules governing the tribunals and military commissions at Guantanamo Bay endanger us as surely as any terrorists... The prevailing belief that the procedures...
States brief ~ Nebraska high court rules state cannot regulate groundwater
Leading Friday's states brief, the Nebraska Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision today that found the state's Department of Natural Resources cannot regulate groundwater unless the legislature confers such authority. Judge John Wright, writing...
States brief ~ CA high court rules "forgetting" to register as sex offender no excuse
Leading Thursday's states brief, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a 4-3 decision that forgetting to register for Megan's Law because of stress is an insufficient excuse. The Supreme Court overturned the decision...
United States v. Booker, Supreme Court of the United States, January 12, 2005 [applying Blakely v. Washington and holding that the federal sentencing guidelines are subject to the Sixth Amendment and that the current guidelines under which judges can impose...
United States Northern District of California, United State District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker, September 9, 2004. Review the opinion . Excerpt: Plaintiffs have failed to prove the likelihood that a post-merger Oracle and SAP would tacitly...
