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3 Dec 2009, 12:13 am
Former Solicitor General Feels Senators' Wrath Over Supreme Court's 'Iqbal' Ruling The National Law Journal Democratic senators have for months accused the U.S. [read post]
19 Jun 2017, 3:02 pm
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft was among the defendants. [read post]
18 May 2010, 10:41 am
Stretching the requirements of pleading a constitutional violation to new limits, the 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court allowed a lower judge to dismiss the complaint on grounds that it was not “plausible” that former Attorney General John Ashcroft purposefully discriminated on the basis of national origin. [read post]
17 Nov 2007, 9:36 am
The U.S. attorney general at the time the government resumed the death penalty was John Ashcroft, the former Missouri governor and senator. [read post]
29 Jul 2007, 12:11 am
"Perhaps the pre-3/04 data mining that OLC had approved -- and that Gonzales and Card might have been imploring the ailing Ashcroft to continue approving -- would have violated this funding prohibition. [read post]
18 Nov 2009, 5:36 am
At one point, we were within twenty feet of three conservative lions: former Attorney General John Ashcroft, former Solicitor General Ted Olson, and likely future Texas Attorney General Ted Cruz (from the next generation of leaders). [read post]
20 May 2009, 12:51 am
Plaintiffs Lawyers See Broad Impact of High Court's Decision on Detainees
The National Law Journal
Litigators and civil procedure experts say that Monday's Supreme Court ruling dismissing a complaint against former Attorney General John Ashcroft for post-Sept. 11 policies may make it significantly harder for plaintiffs in a broad range of cases to survive defendants' motions to dismiss. [read post]
13 Feb 2021, 3:30 am
Was John Ashcroft her idea of an honorable attorney general? [read post]
27 Jun 2012, 2:56 am
You could have knocked on your boss, John Ashcroft's door and had a chat about bringing fundamental fairness back to our criminal laws. [read post]
4 Jul 2009, 1:09 pm
The Iqbal decision then emerged, with the Court blocking a lawsuit against former Attorney General John Ashcroft and current FBI Director Robert Mueller. [read post]
7 Mar 2007, 12:05 am
Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that an energy company had been charged with conspiring to jack up electricity prices during California's 2001 power crisis, the case ended Tuesday with deferred prosecution agreements. [read post]
10 Dec 2009, 11:03 am
The application for the FISC order was personally approved by John Ashcroft, then the Attorney General of the United States. [read post]
20 Dec 2012, 9:01 pm
Attorney General John Ashcroft’s policy of threatening federal investigation and revocation of federally granted prescription privileges for any doctors who “prescribe or recommend” to their patients the use of marijuana for medical purposes. [read post]
Opinion analysis: Justices throw out most claims against federal officials in post-September 11 case
19 Jun 2017, 6:03 pm
Abbasi (along with two other related cases) filed a lawsuit against a group of federal officials: former U.S. attorney general John Ashcroft, former FBI director Robert Mueller, and James Ziglar, a former commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the wardens at a detention center where the men were being held. [read post]
4 Mar 2010, 2:02 am
William Hague hid Lord Ashcroft’s tax status for months The Guardian reports: Former leader’s disclosure reveals peer kept financial affairs secret from senior Conservatives for a decade. [read post]
31 May 2012, 9:13 am
Parts of the surveillance program were so egregious that the upper echelon of the Justice Department, including then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, threatened to resign en masse if it wasn’t changed. [read post]
30 Jun 2011, 3:08 pm
When the Court gave legal immunity to former Attorney General John Ashcroft to a lawsuit claiming he had abused a “material witness” law in order to inaugurate a regime of detention of terrorism suspects, Kennedy wrote separately to suggest a constitutional theory that Cabinet officers should have a special kind of immunity that would insulate them from lawsuits, even if the constitutionality of their conduct had come into serious question in… [read post]
30 Sep 2009, 6:19 am
Pointing to two recent lower-court rulings (by Bush-appointed judges) refusing to dismiss suits against former Attorney General John Ashcroft and former DOJ official John Yoo, as well as ongoing en banc proceedings in the Second Circuit, Mark Sherman suggests that some Bush Administration officials' involvement in the legal justification of some domestic military operations might leave them open to successful lawsuits.… [read post]
9 Sep 2022, 10:52 am
For instance, the contention that former FBI director James Comey, senior FBI officials, and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein "overzealously targeted" Plaintiff and conspired to harm him through appointment of special counsel are strikingly similar to the conclusory and formulaic allegations found deficient in the seminal Supreme Court case of Ashcroft v. [read post]
6 Jan 2014, 1:00 pm
Attorney General John Ashcroft, after 9/11 a “paradigm of prevention” was needed in the U.S. in order to thwart future attacks. [read post]
