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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]
9 Oct 2008, 12:37 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] late Wednesday issued a temporary stay [order, PDF] of a district court order requiring the federal government to release 17 Uighur detainees from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archives]. [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 Aug 2009, 6:08 am
[JURIST] A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] in an opinion unsealed Friday that the US lacks enough evidence to justify the continued detention of Yemeni national Mohammed al-Adahi, granting al-Adahi's petition for habeas corpus [LLI materials]. [read post]
15 Oct 2021, 9:13 am by Emily Dai
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia released the settlement agreement between former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and various components of the U.S. government. [read post]
2 Jun 2018, 10:00 am by JURIST Staff
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] dismissed the two complaints, one for failure to state a claim, and the other for lack of standing. [read post]
7 Apr 2009, 8:56 am
[JURIST] A judge from the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Tuesday granted a government motion [text, PDF] to set aside the conviction of former senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) [US Congress backgrounder] on corruption charges. [read post]
27 Apr 2012, 9:33 am by Jaclyn Belczyk
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Thursday denied a request [opinion, PDF] to release photos of Osama Bin Laden [JURIST news archive] taken shortly after his death last year. [read post]
11 Dec 2017, 12:07 pm by Andrew Morgan
The US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Monday denied [order, PDF] the government's request to delay implementation of a preliminary injunction [JURIST report] halting portions of President Donald Trump's [official profile] transgender military ban. [read post]
2 Feb 2016, 9:25 am by Alexandra Farone
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]
15 Jan 2020, 7:33 am by Hadley Baker
District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday to withdraw his guilty plea of making false statements to the FBI regarding his contacts with Russia. [read post]
11 Nov 2008, 9:11 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Monday denied [opinion, PDF] a government motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) [advocacy website] and the National Security Archive [official website] seeking access to e-mail records from the White House Office of Administration (OA) [ [read post]
17 Mar 2010, 8:50 am by David Manes
The suit, filed in the US district court for the District of Columbia, seeks to enforce a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) [text] request [text, PDF] made in January. [read post]
25 Feb 2010, 8:38 am by Andrea Bottorff
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] ruled Wednesday that the government can continue to hold indefinitely two Yemeni Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees, even though the men had been cleared for release by the Bush administration two years ago. [read post]
11 Feb 2005, 8:02 am
The lawsuit, which joins over 70 separate cases already pending in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, was filed Thursday following a one-page [read post]
25 Mar 2010, 11:12 am by Ximena Marinero
[JURIST] A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Wednesday denied [order, PDF] a Yemeni Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee's habeas corpus petition on its merits, allowing the US government to prolong the detention indefinitely. [read post]
14 Jun 2012, 9:24 am by Rebecca DiLeonardo
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Wednesday dismissed [opinion, PDF] a lawsuit filed by seven Guatemalans who alleged that they had been the subject of non-consensual human medical experimentation by the US Public Health Service (PHS) [official websites]. [read post]
1 Sep 2009, 4:24 am
[JURIST] Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] denied the habeas corpus petition of Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Fawzi Khalid Abdullah Fahad Al Odah in a partially redacted opinion [text, PDF] made public Monday. [read post]
30 Jul 2009, 7:20 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Thursday ordered [text, PDF] that Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Jawad [ACLU materials; JURIST news archive] be released prior to August 24. [read post]