Search for: "Gladys Kessler" Results 1 - 20 of 202
Sorted by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
5 Nov 2008, 10:40 pm
News release: "In a striking rebuke to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Judge Gladys Kessler of the United States District... [read post]
3 Oct 2014, 4:30 pm by Jane Chong
District Court Judge Gladys Kessler has ordered the unsealing of secret videos that show Guantanamo Bay prisoner Abu Wa’el Dhiab being forcibly extracted from his cell and force-fed. [read post]
6 Jul 2004, 2:34 pm
US District Judge Gladys Kessler ruled Tuesday that the federal agency overseeing AmeriCorps must stop financing programs placing volunteers in Catholic schools. [read post]
24 Feb 2011, 2:12 pm by constitutional lawblogger
Judge Gladys Kessler (D.D.C.) on Tuesday upheld the individual health insurance mandate in the federal health reform package, the Affordable Care Act. [read post]
18 May 2014, 8:45 pm by Steven D. Schwinn
Schwinn, John Marshall Law School Judge Gladys Kessler (D.D.C.) on Friday temporarily enjoined the government from force-feeding Abu Wa'el Dhiab, a hunger-striking Guantanamo detainee. [read post]
18 Aug 2006, 2:36 am
District Judge Gladys Kessler ruled in favor of the federal government in its massive RICO case against the tobacco companies alleging that they engaged in misleading conduct for decades as part of a broad conspiracy (U.S. v. [read post]
5 Jun 2007, 12:36 pm
Judge Gladys Kessler of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia held that a magistrate had committed clear error in concluding that the fiduciary exception to the attorney work product doctrine must be considered only in circumstances... [read post]
24 May 2004, 12:26 pm
US District Judge Gladys Kessler has denied a motion brought by several tobacco companies and refused to limit the $280 billion of fines sought by the government in a suit accusing tobacco companies of participating in a conspiracy to deliberately mislead the public about the risks of smoking. [read post]
1 Jun 2004, 9:05 am
US District Judge Gladys Kessler has ordered a unit of British American Tobacco Plc (BAT) to turn over a memorandum in the US government's $280 billion racketeering case against tobacco companies. [read post]
19 Aug 2006, 12:29 pm
Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) [official website] said Friday that Congress should write into law some of the remedies that US District Judge Gladys Kessler imposed on the tobacco industry [JURIST news archive] after finding that tobacco companies conspired to deceive the public about the dangers of smoking. [read post]
9 Oct 2007, 12:29 pm
[JURIST] US District Judge Gladys Kessler of the DC District Court [official website] has directly intervened to block the transfer of a Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee to Tunisia, where he faced the threat of torture. [read post]
13 May 2009, 7:25 am
[JURIST] Judge Gladys Kessler of the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] has released an opinion [text] to accompany last week's order [text, PDF; JURIST report] granting the habeas corpus petition of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed. [read post]
26 Oct 2005, 7:05 pm
[JURIST] Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees on a hunger strike [JURIST report] must be notified by the Defense Department before their clients may be force fed against their will, US District Judge Gladys Kessler [official profile] ruled Wednesday. [read post]
12 Oct 2007, 12:55 am
[JURIST] The Tunisian government Thursday condemned torture as "reprehensible," criticizing US District Judge Gladys Kessler for blocking the transfer [JURIST report] of a Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee to Tunisia because he faced a threat of torture. [read post]
28 Oct 2015, 5:23 am by Dominic Yobbi
US District Judge Gladys Kessler [official profile] stated in her opinion that nothing has occurred to change her mind and that holding prisoners for years without pressing charges is a "burning, controversial issue in our country. [read post]
21 Jul 2004, 10:28 am
US District Court Judge Gladys Kessler Wednesday fined Philip Morris and its parent company Altria $2.75 million for destroying e-mail in violation of her 1999 order to preserve e-mail and other records relevant to the federal government's lawsuit against the tobacco companies. [read post]
27 Aug 2012, 10:18 am by Green
A couple weeks ago, Judge Gladys Kessler (DDC) issued an order directing the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the New England Fisheries Management Council to review their decision not to include river herring as a non-target stock within the... [read post]