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9 May 2007, 1:07 pm
Faced with the prospect of losing the six-month sentence reduction boot camp held out, Serrato filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus.... [read post]
4 Aug 2010, 3:27 am by South Florida Lawyers
Kagan thought it was acceptable to use foreign law to interpret the Constitution, which she retorted was almost never the case. [read post]
18 Dec 2006, 4:16 pm
Current cases and priorities include lawsuits against military commanders for torture of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan; litigation challenging unconstitutional detention of immigrants; preserving the right to habeas corpus and access to the courts; challenging unconstitutional city and local ordinances targeting immigrants; enforcing anti-discrimination laws; compelling disclosure of government documents under the Freedom of Information Act; and ensuring due process… [read post]
19 Apr 2011, 4:28 am by Walter Olson
” [JoNova via Coyote] Add another to the list of judges who file suits over critical discussion of their rulings, in this case by the losing party, a newspaper [ABA Journal] “Obama on presidential signing statements then … and now” [Bainbridge, Outside the Beltway] “The never-ending stream of futile petitions suggests that habeas corpus is a wasteful nuisance. [read post]
16 Jun 2010, 1:21 pm by Larry Siems, The Torture Report
Jawad, or, in good conscience, serve as a prosecutor” for the Office of Military Commissions, Vandeveld — referring to himself as Jawad's “former prosecutor and now-repentant persecutor”— resigned and submitted this devastating affidavit in support of Jawad's habeas corpus petition. [read post]
23 Mar 2007, 2:52 pm
Of course, all of this is played out against the unfortunate and almost insurmountable barrier to habeas corpus imposed by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act. [read post]
12 Jun 2008, 6:12 pm
And today, that is exactly what Kennedy did as he wrote for the court that "practical considerations" compelled extension of the constitutional privilege of habeas corpus to noncitizens detainees held at Guantanamo. [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 7:31 am by Steve Hall
The public defenders will assist death row prisoners filing state writs of habeas corpus, generally the last chance for prisoners to raise arguments related to innocence claims or mishandling of their cases during the legal process that led to conviction. [read post]
14 Jun 2008, 10:02 am
Kennedy's concurrence in one of the latter cases, United States v. [read post]
28 Sep 2010, 12:44 pm by The Editors
Furthermore, Kenya has ignored his right to habeas corpus in his incognito transfer to Uganda. [read post]
29 Feb 2012, 5:57 am by Tomiko Brown-Nagin
His articles on habeas corpus, the Fourth Amendment, self-incrimination, and the reach of the state are still cited by the Supreme Court.Dorsen draws on extensive research, employing private memoranda between the judges and interviews with all fifty-one of Friendly’s law clerks—a veritable Who’s Who that includes Chief Justice John R. [read post]
5 Dec 2007, 12:31 am
Although it eliminates the formal habeas corpus remedy, it substitutes in its place a new procedural regime, whereby Gauntanamo detainees get judicial review of the lawfulness and evidentiary basis for their detentions in the D.C. [read post]
27 Aug 2009, 6:00 am
Hayes, ___ F.3d ___ (Aug. 20, 2009), the Ninth Circuit reversed an order denying class certification under Rule 23(b)(2) in a federal habeas corpus case. [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 12:35 pm by Margaret Wood
James Martin, a senior legal information analyst in the Law Library of Congress, presents “The Merriman Case and the Writ of Habeas Corpus. [read post]
8 Jun 2011, 9:29 am by Kent Scheidegger
If that same performance measure is demanded for a writ seeking re-examination of the entire case, "you're adding an entirely new level of review," Wilkinson said. [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 2:40 pm by team
Under French code of migration and asylum, the parents were not entitled to take any proceeding by which the lawfulness of their detention shall be decided (habeas corpus). [read post]
27 Aug 2013, 12:38 pm by farrah nagrampa
  In addition to Barnes & Noble gift cards, winners can choose from the following list of titles:  Acing Criminal Procedure Criminal Procedure: Quick Review Federal Criminal Practice: A Second Circuit Handbook Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir Foundations of Labor and Employment Law Foundations of Tort Law Habeas Corpus in America: The Politics of Individual Rights Leading Constitutional Cases on Criminal Justice Mastering Statutory Interpretation Plain… [read post]
20 Aug 2008, 10:55 am
  Here is the abstract:As the war on terrorism continues, and along with it a heated debate over the scope of executive authority in times of national emergency, one important question deserves careful attention: How much power may Congress vest in the executive to address the crisis at hand when it chooses to take the "grave action" of suspending the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus? [read post]