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8 Apr 2008, 10:46 am
The ACLU is in appeals court in Seattle today, arguing that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held personally responsible for the wrongful arrest and detention of Abdullah al-Kidd. [read post]
4 Sep 2009, 2:28 pm
A federal appeals court has ruled that former Attorney General John Ashcroft may be held liable for people who were wrongfully detained as material witnesses after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.In a harshly worded ruling handed down Friday, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. [read post]
20 May 2009, 8:52 am
Supreme Court case involving Javaid Iqbal who was never charged with any 9/11-related terrorism, but nevertheless, suffered inhumane treatment in federal prison for months, and sought to hold former Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI director Robert S. [read post]
15 May 2007, 3:13 pm
Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he refused to recertify the program because Attorney General John Ashcroft had reservations about its legality just before falling ill with pancreatitis in March 2004. [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 7:02 am
Attorney General John D. [read post]
30 Sep 2009, 11:10 am
In this case, the Court considered whether FBI Director Robert Mueller and former Attorney General John Ashcroft are entitled to qualified immunity against allegations that they knew of or condoned racial and religious discrimination against individuals detained in the wake of the September 11th attacks. [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 2:05 pm
Just as the intelligence and law-enforcement communities rely on tips from vigilant citizens, enterprises too must broaden their approach to information security, former Attorney General John Ashcroft said in a speech. [read post]
19 Mar 2010, 6:39 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Thursday denied [opinion, PDF] a petition by former attorney general John Ashcroft [JURIST news archive] to reconsider its decision that Ashcroft is not entitled to absolute and qualified immunity in an unlawful detention case. [read post]
5 Nov 2007, 3:42 pm
In an Op-Ed in Monday's New York Times, former Attorney General John Ashcroft joined the long line of Republican Justice Department law-and-order types who all of a sudden sound like an aging, pony-tailed defense attorney, banging the table and pleading with a jury to free their meth-lab owning client since the law is just unfair, that the meth was being grown to help… [read post]
13 Sep 2006, 2:00 am
[JURIST] Former US Attorney General John Ashcroft [BBC profile], who resigned from the post in November 2004, told an audience at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Tuesday that President Bush has done less harm to civil liberties than any other wartime president in US history, and said that Bush administration efforts to combat terrorism, including the USA Patriot Act [JURIST news [read post]
11 Jul 2011, 8:33 am
The Supreme Court’s decision to dismiss a suit in May against former Attorney General John Ashcroft might help one of his former employees fight a case that has been under review for more than a year, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. [read post]
13 Apr 2004, 7:04 pm
Recorded video of live testimony by Attorney General John Ashcroft (via the New York Times), former FBI head Louis Freeh and former Attorney General Janet Reno (via C-SPAN) before the 9/11 Commission on day one of its two-day public hearing on Law Enforcement and the Intelligence Community is now available online. [read post]
20 Oct 2009, 8:00 pm
" The Associated Press has a report that begins, "Former Attorney General John Ashcroft has asked a federal appeals court to reconsider its ruling that he can be held personally responsible for wrongfully detaining people as material witnesses after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. [read post]
28 Apr 2008, 5:37 pm
[JURIST] US House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) [official website] Monday threatened to seek subpoenas [materials] to compel three current and former administration officials, including former Attorney General John Ashcroft [official profile], to testify about a recently released Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel memorandum [text; JURIST report] that advised the US [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 3:16 pm
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft* Asian moms aren’t always enthusiastic about alternative careers for their lawyer children. [read post]
18 Jun 2015, 6:13 am
In a 2-1 ruling the court ruled that former Attorney General John Ashcroft [BBC profile], former FBI director Robert Mueller [official profile] and the former head of an immigration agency may... [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 5:48 am
"Supreme Court rejects suit against John Ashcroft; The justices throw out a lawsuit by Abdullah Kidd, who says he was held as a material witness under improper motives; The ruling broadens protections for government officials, including the former attorney general": David G. [read post]
4 Sep 2009, 6:15 pm
A three judge panel in the 9th Circuit has ruled Abdullah al-Kidd, an American who converted to Islam during college, was illegally detained by the Bush Administration under the material witness statute, and can seek damages personally from former Attorney General John Ashcroft. [read post]
18 May 2009, 11:31 am
In response, Iqbal sued (among others) former Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI director Robert S. [read post]
28 Sep 2006, 7:18 am
Attorney General John Ashcroft does not have absolute immunity in a lawsuit related to material witnesses filed by a student. [read post]
