Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees on a hunger strike must be notified by the Defense Department before their clients may be force fed against their will, US District Judge Gladys Kessler ruled Wednesday. Kessler also ruled that the government must provide detainee medical records from before the hunger strike to their attorneys, although she denied [...]
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US v. Ahmend Omar Abu Ali, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Judge Gerald Bruce Lee, October 24, 2005 . Read the full text of the memorandum opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Majid Abdulla al-Joudi et al. v. George W. Bush et.al, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Gladys Kessler, October 26, 2005 . Read the full text of the memorandum opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The federal grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative’s identity adjourned on Wednesday after meeting for three hours with Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald and his deputies. The grand jury's term, which is set to expire in three days, can be extended by Chief US District Judge Thomas Hogan at Fitzgerald's request. Though Fitzgerald [...]
The Bush administration announced Wednesday that on November 8 it plans to reinstate rules that ensure workers on federal Hurricane Katrina projects receive fair wages that are close to the amount of local wages on similar projects. In the days following Hurricane Katrina, the President signed an executive order suspending provisions of the 1931 Davis-Bacon [...]
The British government's proposed Terrorism Bill passed its first test in the House of Commons Wednesday, despite a 16 MP-strong rebellion of Labour Party backbenchers against the government and continued disagreement from opposition parties over controversial detention provisions. The bill, championed by Prime Minister Tony Blair , passed with the support of most Conservatives. The [...]
Uzbek prosecutors in the trial of 15 men accused of plotting a rebellion in Andijan on Wednesday sought prison sentences of between nine and 20 years for the suspects. Prosecutors urged the court to issue a 20-year sentence for five men, an 18-year sentence for three, and 17 years in jail for four, as well [...]
US Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) previewed a range of confirmation questions for controversial US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers Wednesday. In a letter , he told Miers she should expect inquiries about the war on terror and whether she would give "special deference" to President Bush. Specter also said he wanted to [...]
Lebanese prosecutors have charged two men in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , sources reported Wednesday. The two men, brothers Ahmad and Mahmoud Abdel-Al, were both named last week by a report by a UN commission investigating the killing as being allegedly involved in the bomb plot. Ahmad Abdel-Al is a member [...]
A German court on Wednesday found four Middle Eastern men guilty of links to al Qaeda and of plotting to attack Jewish targets in Germany, and the four were sentenced to between five and eight years in prison. The four men, arrested in 2002 for alleged plots against two Jewish-owned discos in Dusseldorf and a [...]
