Judge John Bates of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday ordered that copies of the documents related to the investigation into the late 2006 firings of nine...
Common Cause/Georgia, et al., v. NAACP, Eugene Taylor, and Bertha Barrett Young, US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, January 14, 2009 . Read the full...
Herring v. United States, Supreme Court of the United States, January 14, 2009 [ruling that evidence seized during a search incident to an arrest does not have to be suppressed when the sole premise for the arrest was information negligently...
Mohammed El Gharani v. George W. Bush, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, January 14, 2009 [ruling that the government had failed to establish by a preponderance of evidence that Guantanamo detainee Mohammed El Gharani was...
The US Supreme Court decided two cases Wednesday. The Court ruled 5-4 in Herring v. United States that evidence seized during a search incident to an arrest...
The Bush administration engaged in numerous abuses , and the incoming Obama administration should launch a criminal investigation to find out whether any laws were violated, according to a report released Tuesday by US House Judiciary...
The former acting head of the Civil Rights Division at the US Department of Justice (DOJ) routinely discriminated against job applicants and employees who did not share his conservative political views, according to a report...
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) prosecutor Justice Hassan B. Jallow on Tuesday appealed the 15-year sentence given to popular Rwandan singer-songwriter Simon Bikindi . Jallow appealed...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in three cases. In Montejo v. Louisiana , the Court heard arguments on whether an indigent defendant must affirmatively...
Former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld , as well as more than 100 military officers and personnel, have been sued for the wrongful deaths of two former detainees who committed suicide while at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST...