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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 by Rebecca DiLeonardo
[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]
11 Nov 2011, 4:49 am by John Paul Putney
The unredacted portion of the majority opinion largely focuses on the district court's failure to afford the evidence of the government? [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]
8 Sep 2010, 9:37 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Tuesday denied [order, PDF] a motion to stay a preliminary injunction [order, PDF; JURIST report] issued in August barring government funding of stem cell research [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
20 Jul 2024, 10:25 pm by Bekim Bruka | JURIST Staff, US
The US District Court for the District of Columbia sentenced a former Marine Tyler Dykes on Friday to nearly five years in prison for assaulting police officers during the January 6 Capitol attack. [read post]
24 Oct 2020, 4:51 pm by INFORRM
BarrDecision Date: March 27, 2020 A District Court in Columbia dismissed a First Amendment challenge to the constitutionality of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) alleging it criminalized certain research activities. [read post]
29 Nov 2007, 6:33 am
The District of Columbia Bar's Rules of Professional Conduct Review Committee has posted a notice seeking comments on a series of questions involving present Comment [12] to Rule 4.2. [read post]
30 Jan 2013, 11:52 am by Michael Steven Green
My penultimate Erie question is about the District of Columbia. [read post]
2 Nov 2009, 11:05 pm
Last week, the District of Columbia Council, Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary, held a hearing on the proposed Religious Freedom & Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act of 2009 which would allow same-sex marriages to be performed in the District of Columbia. [read post]
13 Jan 2010, 4:55 am
Repeated Failure of Mass Action Plaintiffs to Respond to Discovery Questionnaires from Defense Attorneys Warranted Dismissal of those Plaintiffs with Prejudice District of Columbia Federal Court Holds Plaintiffs, “citizens and domiciliaries of Ecuador,” filed a mass action complaint against various defendants “alleging physical harm and property damage stemming from the defendants’ contract with the United States government to spray pesticides… [read post]
31 Jul 2020, 4:35 am by INFORRM
The editor of Makan.uz explained that she published the news without seeking an official confirmation because of mistrust in the government. [read post]
18 May 2018, 10:00 am by Dan Ernst
James Durling, a student at the Yale Law School, has posted The District of Columbia and Article III: Today, nearly everyone assumes that the District of Columbia is an exception to Article III. [read post]
1 Jul 2024, 3:42 am by Daniel M. Kowalski
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed the district courts’ decisions in Gomez v. [read post]
16 Jul 2008, 10:43 pm
., city government on Wednesday made available the final versions of actions the City Council and the chief of police have taken on new handgun laws and regulations, responding to the Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. [read post]
18 Feb 2011, 11:15 am
Employers in Virginia, the District of Columbia and throughout the nation should take note of the Obama Administration's increasing focus on companies who employ undocumented workers. [read post]
28 Mar 2012, 1:22 pm
Patent attorneys for Certainteed had filed the motion to dismiss arguing that Knauf did not have standing because it did not own the rights to the patent at issue and that a first-filed action by Certainteed in the District of Columbia should resolve this dispute, not the case filed with the Southern District of Indiana. [read post]