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15 Oct 2021, 9:13 am
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]
20 Nov 2008, 10:31 am
The DOJ claims that the current rules, as established by US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] Chief [read post]
7 Sep 2010, 8:40 am
[JURIST] A federal judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] ruled [order, PDF] Friday that the US government can indefinitely hold an Afghan detainee at the Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detention facility. [read post]
21 Jan 2011, 5:12 am
[JURIST] Verizon [corporate website] on Thursday filed a lawsuit [press release] in the US District Court for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] challenging new net neutrality [JURIST news archive] rules that will allow the government to regulate Internet traffic. [read post]
31 Oct 2014, 9:44 am
Lamberth, US District Court for the District of Columbia, “a shoot-from-the-hip Texan known for taking a hard line against what he sees as government incompetence” and “a genial giant of a public servant. [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]
7 Oct 2009, 6:28 am
[JURIST] Judge Royce Lamberth of the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Tuesday granted [order, PDF; memorandum opinion, PDF] the government's motion to dismiss the petition for habeas corpus brought on behalf of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Idris Ahmad Abdu Qadir Idris [NYT profile]. [read post]
7 Jul 2014, 7:37 am
[JURIST] Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees on Thursday filed [motion, PDF] an emergency application in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] for a temporary restraining order prohibiting the government from depriving the inmates of the right to pray communally during the month of Ramadan. [read post]
11 Apr 2010, 8:41 am
[JURIST] The US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] late last week made public two previously unreleased rulings relating to habeas corpus claims by Guantanamo detainees. [read post]
28 Feb 2018, 7:25 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Monday granted [order, PDF] the government's motion to dismiss a lawsuit [JURIST report] challenging President Donald Trump's 2 for 1 executive order [JURIST report] that mandated agencies eliminate two existing regulations for each new one created. [read post]
31 Oct 2017, 9:47 am
The US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Monday granted [order, PDF] a preliminary injunction against portions of President Donald Trump's [official profile] transgender military ban. [read post]
16 Dec 2013, 12:51 pm
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] ruled [opinion] Monday that the National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] program of collecting phone call data is likely unconstitutional. [read post]
15 Dec 2009, 5:09 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Monday denied Yemeni Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Musa'ab Al-Madhwani's petition for habeas corpus, ruling that the government may continue to detain him. [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]
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]
16 May 2012, 12:07 pm
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Monday awarded [opinion, PDF] victims' families over $300 million dollars in damages from the governments of Syria and Iran for their roles in an April 2006 terrorist attack in Israel. [read post]
14 Jun 2012, 9:24 am
[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]
9 Jul 2008, 2:48 am
[JURIST] The chief judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [court website] said Tuesday that the US government should make detention appeals by Guantanamo detainees a top priority, and devote all necessary resources to ensuring that the appeals reach trial in a timely manner. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 6:27 am
There are several interesting constitutional puzzles involved in making the District of Columbia a state. [read post]
