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20 Oct 2009, 2:23 am
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3 Feb 2017, 12:17 pm
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled [opinion, PDF] Thursday that the Department of Energy had completed the required investigations for the delivery of liquid radioactive waste from Chalk River in Ontario, Canada, to the Savannah River Site [official websites] in South Carolina. [read post]
8 Mar 2017, 6:36 am
Judge James Boasberg of the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] rejected the arguments of the Standing Rock Sioux and Cheyenne River Souix that construction of the pipeline would prevent the tribe from practicing religious ceremonies. [read post]
25 Oct 2005, 7:59 pm
[JURIST] The US Justice Department [official website] told Congress Tuesday that it supported renewal of Section 5 [DOJ backgrounder] of the Voting Rights Act [text], preventing states with a history of discriminatory voting practices from implementing any change affecting voting until the US Attorney General or the United States District Court for the District of Columbia determined that the [read post]
21 Oct 2011, 7:29 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit [opinion, PDF] brought by group of 10 congressmen alleging that US President Barack Obama [official websites] violated Article I Section 8 [Cornell LII backgrounder] and the 1973 War Powers Resolution [50 USC § 1541 et seq] by authorizing increased military strikes in Libya without Congressional approval. [read post]
16 Jul 2008, 1:25 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] on Monday asked [filing, PDF] a judge at the US District Court for the District of Columbia to deny a motion by Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] to stay his trial, now scheduled to begin July 21. [read post]
14 Sep 2008, 6:18 am
[JURIST] Benigno Fitial, governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) [official website], filed a lawsuit Friday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] to prevent the US government from taking over the CNMI's immigration system. [read post]
2 Apr 2009, 9:08 am
[JURIST] Judge John Bates of the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF; order, PDF] Thursday that three detainees being held at Bagram Air Base [official website; GlobalSecurity backgrounder] in Afghanistan can proceed with habeas corpus challenges to their detention. [read post]
9 Feb 2012, 10:02 am
[JURIST] The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) [advocacy website], a consumer privacy group, filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF; press release] Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] asking that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) [official website] block Google's [corporate website] proposed privacy policy changes [text]. [read post]
31 Mar 2023, 5:58 am
As soon as the administration issues a controversial rule that it has reason to know will be challenged by abusive litigation, it should immediately bring an action in federal court in the District of Columbia... [read post]
4 Nov 2014, 12:10 am
District Court for the District of Columbia in Judicial Watch v. [read post]
3 Feb 2017, 9:54 am
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Wednesday that the Federal Election Commission (FEC) [official website] "acted 'arbitrarily and capriciously'" in enacting rules for presidential debates. [read post]
28 Sep 2007, 9:55 am
The move could pave the way for the "high-value" detainees to challenge their status as enemy combatants in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website]. [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 6:50 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF; order, PDF] Wednesday that a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) [official website] regulation [text] requiring cigarette packaging and advertisements to display more prominent graphic health warning labels [materials] is unconstitutional, issuing a permanent injunction. [read post]
3 May 2019, 7:43 am
District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to take immediate steps in preparing to collect EEO-1 “Component-2” compensation data for calendar year 2018 by September 30, 2019. [read post]
11 Mar 2014, 10:11 am
The 51-page report, filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website], argues that objections to the merger by consumer groups are without merit. [read post]
9 Feb 2007, 8:02 am
[JURIST] A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] ruled unanimously [opinion, PDF] Friday that US citizen and suspected terrorist Shawqi Omar [JURIST news archive] has a right to argue his case before a US court. [read post]
10 Oct 2007, 9:43 am
[JURIST] The US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] Wednesday conducted an evidentiary hearing in the decade-old Indian Trust case [Cobell v. [read post]
16 May 2008, 4:04 am
[JURIST] A jury in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] Thursday convicted [DOJ press release] an Afghan national originally held as an enemy combatant on charges of drug distribution and narco-terrorism. [read post]
3 Jul 2008, 8:37 am
[JURIST] The US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] Wednesday chose [resolution, PDF; press release, PDF] Judge Thomas Hogan [official profile] to preside over the habeas corpus appeals of Guantanamo Bay detainees seeking to challenge their detention in federal court under the Supreme Court's recent ruling [opinion, PDF; JURIST report] in Boumediene v. [read post]
