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30 Mar 2011, 10:49 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] on Tuesday overturned [opinion, PDF] a lower court's decision granting release to Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman. [read post]
7 Feb 2022, 6:18 am
 The Court of Appeal for British Columbia found that the rule of law in general required a departure from the presumption of reasonableness in circumstances involving a complex question of statutory interpretation that had significant legal consequences on provincial and municipal governments purporting to regulate mining resources. [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]
8 Mar 2019, 8:43 am by Legal Profession Prof
The District of Columbia Disciplinary Counsel has filed charges alleging that two Assistant United States Attorneys violated multiple ethics rules in handling Brady evidence involving a government witness. [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]
22 Apr 2016, 12:54 pm by Emelina Perez
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] on Thursday upheld [order] a district court's dismissal of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) [official website] request for information about the US government's use of drones for "targeted killings. [read post]
15 Sep 2011, 12:07 pm by Zoe Tillman
A District of Columbia law governing post-conviction DNA testing doesn't allow testing for skin cells that are invisible to the naked eye, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled Thursday morning. [read post]
14 Jun 2011, 6:52 am by Zach Zagger
The CCR filed the appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] on behalf of the two men's families to renew the civil lawsuit against the US and 24 government officials,... [read post]
26 Aug 2006, 12:21 am
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has held the federal government can not longer tax plaintiff's settlement proceeds relating to emotional distress and other intangible injuries. [read post]
20 Oct 2011, 11:58 am by Zoe Tillman
In an opinion (PDF) published Thursday morning, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals found that the government's handling of Brady materials in a 2008 murder case was "troubling," but not enough to reverse a conviction. [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 6:57 am by Michael Haggerson
[JURIST] 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] in the 1940s appealed the dismissal [JURIST report] of their lawsuit to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] on Monday. [read post]
8 Jul 2015, 8:32 am by Taylor Brailey
[JURIST] The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia [official website] on Tuesday upheld [opinion, PDF] a 75-year-long policy prohibiting individuals, corporations or firms working under federal contracts from contributing to the campaigns of federal candidates, parties and committees. [read post]
16 Apr 2011, 9:21 am
In that decision, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] ruled that prolonged use of GPS to monitor suspects' vehicles violates the... [read post]
24 Mar 2010, 1:02 pm by Legal Profession
The web page of the District of Columbia Bar reports this rule change: The District of Columbia Court of Appeals has adopted amendments to the rules governing the Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts recommended by the D.C. [read post]
25 Jul 2011, 12:32 pm by Zoe Tillman
The District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission released the names last week of sixteen applicants vying for retiring District of Columbia Court of Appeals Judge Vanessa Ruiz's seat. [read post]
5 Apr 2011, 6:09 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] on Monday granted [order; PDF] a motion [text, PDF] by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) [official website] to dismiss a challenge to the new net neutrality rules. [read post]
11 May 2018, 8:58 am by Zarine Kharazian
On May 7, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the United States cannot forcibly transfer an American ISIS suspect being held in Iraq to another country without first proving that he is an enemy combatant. [read post]