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19 Feb 2011, 1:40 pm
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Friday denied [opinion, PDF] a petition for writ of habeas corpus of a Yemeni man currently detained at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
10 Oct 2024, 4:27 am
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear oral argument in Hall v. [read post]
15 Sep 2015, 5:17 am
The videos, released to the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] as part of former prisoner Abu Wa'el Dhiab's suit against the federal government, depict tube feeding conducted by medical and security personnel. [read post]
13 Sep 2023, 9:42 am
District Court for the District of Columbia denied Dr. [read post]
13 May 2009, 7:25 am
[JURIST] Judge Gladys Kessler of the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] has released an opinion [text] to accompany last week's order [text, PDF; JURIST report] granting the habeas corpus petition of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed. [read post]
24 Nov 2008, 10:55 pm
District Court for the District of Columbia in Khadr v. [read post]
23 Oct 2014, 2:17 pm
[JURIST] A federal jury in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] returned a guilty verdict on Wednesday for four ex-Blackwater security guards, now Academi [official website], who shot and killed 14 Iraqis and wounded 17 in a 2007 shooting in Baghdad. [read post]
19 Oct 2011, 5:32 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Monday that the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) [official website] is not obligated to reduce green house gas emissions, a contributor to global warming [JURIST news archive], in order to protect polar bears [FWS backgrounder]. [read post]
10 Oct 2022, 10:35 am
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear oral argument in Watkins Law & Advocacy, PLLC v. [read post]
8 Nov 2004, 7:34 am
Judge James Robertson of the US District Court of the District of Columbia has stopped Guantanamo military commission proceedings against Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's bodyguard and driver from 1996 to 2001, on the grounds that they are unlawful as presently constituted (see this previous report in JURIST's Paper Chase). [read post]
11 Mar 2008, 11:55 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday granted [PDF text] a request [JURIST report] filed by former USA Today reporter Toni Locy [profile] to block a daily contempt of court fine while Locy appeals the district court decision to impose sanctions against her for refusing to disclose government sources who provided information about former US Army [read post]
22 Sep 2008, 6:43 pm
[JURIST] The chief judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [court website] granted a government motion [order, PDF] Friday to extend from August 30 to September 30 its deadline to file the first fifty factual returns in the habeas corpus [JURIST news archive] appeals of more than two hundred Guantanamo [JURIST news archive] detainees. [read post]
18 Jun 2018, 2:05 pm
District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that military commission Judge Vance Spath acked authority to hold Chief Defense Counsel John Baker in contempt for disobeying an order last year. [read post]
29 Dec 2016, 1:54 pm
In its complaint, which was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia [website], the Ohio-based company claims that the... [read post]
22 Jul 2016, 8:49 am
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) [official website] filed a complaint [complaint, PDF] today in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] challenging the “anti-circumvention” and “anti-trafficking” provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) [act, PDF]. [read post]
5 May 2009, 2:02 am
[JURIST] Judge Gladys Kessler of the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] ordered [text, PDF] Monday the release of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed. [read post]
21 Jul 2010, 7:59 am
[JURIST] The US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Tuesday allowed [opinion, PDF] Canadian Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] to amend his 2004 habeas corpus petition, but refused to lift the stay on the petition pending the conclusion of his military commission. [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 6:31 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] ruled [opinion] Tuesday that Congress acted within its constitutional powers in passing the health care reform law [text; JURIST news archive] and that the law does not violate the religious freedom of plaintiffs who challenged the law. [read post]
21 Sep 2011, 11:17 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] Wednesday dismissed a challenge to election monitoring under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) [materials]. [read post]
19 Oct 2022, 9:45 am
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear oral argument in Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Wash. v. [read post]
