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17 May 2014, 9:26 am
[JURIST] The US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Friday ordered [order, PDF] officials in Guantanamo Bay to temporarily suspend forced feedings of a Syrian prisoner kept at the detention facility on Guantanamo Bay. [read post]
5 Mar 2021, 3:35 pm
District Court for the District of Columbia issued today. [read post]
9 Sep 2014, 2:45 am
Press Release, CPAs File Class Action Seeking Recovery of More Than $150 Million in Fees Collected by IRS From Tax Practitioners: Two certified public accountants (CPAs) filed a class action complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia earlier today challenging Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulations... [read post]
31 Jul 2008, 1:31 pm
[JURIST] A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia Thursday rejected arguments [opinion, PDF; CREW press release] that senior White House officials are protected from congressional subpoena by executive privilege, ruling that former White House legal counsel Harriet Miers [official profile] must testify before a House committee regarding the US Attorneys firing scandal [JURIST [read post]
20 May 2011, 1:14 pm
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Thursday granted $300 million in punitive damages in each of two cases against Iran for deaths resulting from suicide bombings by Iranian-backed terrorist groups. [read post]
10 Apr 2015, 3:00 am
District Court for the District of Columbia has denied a request for a preliminary injunction to stop the U.S. [read post]
24 Feb 2005, 4:00 pm
[JURIST] In Thursday's environmental law news, the US meatpackers industry group [corporate website] has filed a complaint in the US District Court of District of Columbia to lift a ban on the import of all cattle from Canada. [read post]
9 Jun 2023, 6:57 pm
Alpine Securities Corp. is appealing a federal court’s decision to allow the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to continue its enforcement activities while the investment adviser’s challenge to its authority proceeds.The company’s filing Thursday came a day after the US District Court for the District of Columbia denied its request for a preliminary injunction.Alpine [...] [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 8:18 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Wednesday ruled [judgment, PDF] that challengers of the $3.4 billion settlement agreement [JURIST report] in the American Indian trust class-action lawsuit [backgrounder] will not be required to put up a bond before proceeding with appeals, clearing the way for appeals of the settlement to begin. [read post]
23 Aug 2018, 1:49 pm
District Court for the District of Columbia, the National Archives and Records Administration has unsealed the 1999 special master's report on possible leaks from the independent counsel's office in the Starr investigation. [read post]
2 Feb 2016, 9:25 am
The four men were found guilty [JURIST report] of various murder charges in October 2014 by the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website], and in April... [read post]
25 Oct 2019, 12:38 pm
District Court for the District of Columbia authorized the release of certain grand jury materials to the House Judiciary Committee relating to the Mueller investigation. [read post]
1 Apr 2009, 6:12 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Wednesday granted [order, PDF] a habeas corpus petition filed by Yemeni Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Yasin Muhammed Basardh, ordering his release from the prison. [read post]
7 Dec 2010, 8:02 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Tuesday dismissed [opinion, PDF] a lawsuit [JURIST report] challenging the Obama administration's ability to conduct "targeted killings" in the case of radical Muslim cleric and US citizen Anwar al-Awlaqi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
2 Aug 2012, 6:57 am
[JURIST] The US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Tuesday ruled [opinion, PDF] that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [official website] infringed on the authority given to state regulators by the Clean Water Act [text; EPA backgrounder], the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA) and other surface-mining laws when the agency established water quality criteria [memorandum, PDF] for coal mining in the Appalachia region.… [read post]
28 Sep 2009, 7:02 am
Jamilah Al-Bari, 37, District Heights, Maryland, pleaded guilty to mail fraud arising from the fraudulent purchase of properties in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia. [read post]
26 Feb 2015, 8:12 am
[JURIST] The District of Columbia (DC) [official website] on Thursday disregarded pressures from Congress and went forward with legalizing possession of marijuana after a voter-approved initiative. [read post]
23 Aug 2009, 4:32 am
[JURIST] A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia has granted [opinion, PDF] lawyers for another Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee permission to question Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], the self-proclaimed architect of the 9/11 attacks [JURIST report], in a ruling made public Thursday. [read post]
9 Oct 2010, 2:39 pm
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Wednesday that governmental interests in the protection of sensitive information supersede a detainee's request for its disclosure. [read post]
19 Mar 2019, 1:52 pm
District Court for the District of Columbia denied a petition for a writ of habeas corpus from Abdulsalam Ali Abdulrahman al-Hela, a Yemeni citizen captured in Afghanistan in 2002 and detained at Guantanmo Bay since 2004. [read post]
