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20 Oct 2010, 7:51 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Tuesday denied [order, PDF] the habeas corpus petition of Afghan Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Obaidullah [DOD materials]. [read post]
16 Feb 2018, 12:21 pm
Nine local government and health care organizations filed four lawsuits on Thursday in US federal district courts in Washington, the District of Columbia [complaints, PDF] and Maryland challenging the Trump's administrations July 2017 termination of grants for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPP Program), a congressionally mandated initiative funding programs to prevent teen pregnancy. [read post]
1 Jun 2018, 10:55 am
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]
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 Sep 2009, 4:07 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] on Tuesday affirmed [opinion, PDF] a district court decision [opinion, PDF] upholding the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 (HLOGA) [text, PDF], which requires members of Congress to disclose more information about their fund-raising efforts and gifts they receive from lobbyists, and also [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 5:19 am
[JURIST] Judge Thomas Hogan of the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] Monday approved [DOI press release] a $3.4 billion settlement [agreement, PDF] in the American Indian trust [news archive] class-action lawsuit. [read post]
7 Jan 2009, 7:36 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday [official website] granted [opinion; PDF] the government's motion to hold in abeyance the habeas corpus petitions of two Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees, but only if and when the charges against the pair are referred to military commissions. [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]
8 Jul 2010, 7:02 am
The US government is... [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]
11 Nov 2011, 4:49 am
The unredacted portion of the majority opinion largely focuses on the district court's failure to afford the evidence of the government? [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]
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]
13 Feb 2007, 7:03 pm
District Court for the District of Columbia, alleging The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) violated the books and records and internal controls provisions of the FCPA in connection with an estimated $200,000 in improper payments made by an off-shore subsidiary to Indian government officials from 1996 through 2001. [read post]
17 May 2008, 3:04 pm
[JURIST] The Texas Border Coalition [advocacy website], a group of Texan officials and business owners, filed a class action lawsuit [complaint, PDF] Friday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] to enjoin the Department of Homeland Security from constructing a fence on the US-Mexico border. [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]
25 May 2012, 10:49 am
The government argued... [read post]
24 Sep 2012, 9:53 am
District Court for the District of Columbia by a Texas community bank, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the 60 Plus Association, challenging the constitutionality of the Dodd-Frank Act, in complaining that it gives the government too much power to take over and liquidate nonbank companies whose failure would [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]
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]
