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27 Mar 2007, 4:21 pm
[JURIST] The US District Court for the District of Columbia Tuesday dismissed [press release] a lawsuit [complaint, PDF; ACLU case file] against former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld [official profile] for authorizing torture and abuse of detainees by US personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan. [read post]
17 Mar 2009, 2:08 am
[JURIST] Chief judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] Royce Lamberth [official profile] criticized the US Senate [official website] on Monday for politicizing the federal judicial confirmation process. [read post]
17 Oct 2009, 5:30 am
[JURIST] A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] refused [opinion, PDF] Friday to force the Department of Defense (DOD) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official websites] to release non-redacted versions of documents that allegedly describe the torture and abuse of 14 Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees. [read post]
14 Jul 2010, 8:52 am
In his ruling ordering Odaini's release, Judge Henry Kennedy Jr. of the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website], ruled that the US government had illegally detained Odaini for the past eight years and... [read post]
5 Nov 2010, 2:23 pm
[JURIST] A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] on Friday ordered further review [opinion, PDF] of a lower court decision to release Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Mohamedou Olud Slahi [NYT materials], allegedly linked to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. [read post]
22 Dec 2011, 12:00 pm
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit [order, PDF; opinion, PDF] by a former Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee alleging that he was subjected to torture. [read post]
4 Dec 2018, 6:39 pm
District Court for the District of Columbia declined on Nov. 30 to grant the government's motion for a stay of the court's preliminary injunction halting implementation of the ban on military service by transgender individuals. [read post]
24 Nov 2008, 9:19 pm
In early October, a judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] ordered the release of the detainees [opinion and order, PDF; JURIST report], [read post]
22 Jul 2009, 7:13 am
Two new groups opposing the planned Bradwood Landing LNG project, "District 1 for the Columbia" and "Democracy in District 5," have announced that they will seek to recall Clatsop County Commissioners Jeff Hazen and Ann Samuelson over their support for the Bradwood Landing LNG import terminal. [read post]
19 May 2020, 7:27 am
As the world slowly returns to some semblance of normalcy, the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia recently announced varying plans as to when they will reopen and what reopening will look like. [read post]
11 May 2023, 5:50 am
District Court for the District of Columbia at this link. [read post]
26 Jun 2007, 8:42 am
[JURIST] A federal judge from the US District Court for the District of Columbia sentenced Lt. [read post]
6 Aug 2008, 3:36 am
[JURIST] Judge Royce Lamberth [official profile] of the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Wednesday ordered the unsealing of hundreds of documents [court materials] related to the FBI's probe into the 2001 anthrax attacks [GWU backgrounder]. [read post]
26 Mar 2010, 10:38 am
In a decision released Monday, US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] Judge James Robinson had granted [ [read post]
13 May 2016, 7:02 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Thursday in favor of House Republicans in a challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) [text, PDF]. [read post]
11 May 2018, 7:20 am
The National Fair Housing Alliance and other fair housing groups filed suit [complaint, PDF] Tuesday against the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) [official website] and HUD Secretary Ben Carson in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. [read post]
9 Jun 2008, 5:53 am
[JURIST] The US District Court for the District of Columbia [court website] began hearings Monday in Cobell v. [read post]
2 Jul 2008, 11:48 pm
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia [official website] on Wednesday reversed [opinion, PDF] a district court ruling and found that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) [NIMH backgrounder] may qualify as a disability under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 [text, DOC]. [read post]
3 Nov 2011, 12:47 pm
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Wednesday denied a motion to dismiss [opinion, PDF] a suit by Sprint [corporate website] to block the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile USA [corporate websites]. [read post]
20 Mar 2009, 6:50 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Thursday granted a preliminary injunction [opinion, PDF] against a federal rule [50 CFR § 27.42 text] that permits the possession of "concealed, loaded and operable" hand guns in national parks and wildlife refuges in accordance with state laws. [read post]
