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23 Oct 2004, 8:03 pm
AP is reporting that the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Ohio voters who use provisional ballots must cast those ballots in their own precincts, overruling a contrary lower-court decision that would have counted them so long as they were cast in the correct county, and upholding a policy originally announced by Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, a Republican. [read post]
13 Jan 2006, 8:30 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] refused to grant immunity Friday to two police officials named in a lawsuit filed on behalf of 386 people who were roped off at Pershing Park and arrested during protests [DC Watch report] at the World Bank-International Monetary Fund annual meeting in 2002. [read post]
9 Jan 2007, 7:22 am
[JURIST] Four US federal appeals court nominees requested Tuesday that their names be withdrawn from consideration by the Senate [official website], according to Republican party officials. [read post]
22 Mar 2006, 5:21 am
[JURIST] The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] on Wednesday reduced the life sentence [press release] of former Bosnian Serb mayor Milomir Stakic [ICTY case backgrounder; HRW backgrounder] to 40 years in prison. [read post]
20 Oct 2006, 8:00 am
[JURIST] A lawyer for a Muslim teaching assistant suspended by a British school for refusing to remove her full-face veil (niqab; Wikipedia backgrounder) during class said Friday she planned to appeal [BBC recorded audio] a local tribunal's decision to the European Court of Justice [official website]. [read post]
1 Mar 2008, 3:42 am
[JURIST] An Iraqi appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction and death sentence of Mohammad Munaf [JURIST news archive], a US citizen and former translator charged with orchestrating the kidnapping of three Romanian journalists [Guardian report] held for 55 days in Iraq in 2005. [read post]
16 Jul 2008, 2:06 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, sitting en banc, issued a per curiam opinion [PDF] Tuesday, finding by a vote of 5-4 that if the government's allegations against Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri [NYT profile; Brennan Center case materials] are true, the President is empowered by Congress to hold al-Marri in a military prison without charge as an enemy combatant, under the 2001 [read post]
16 Jul 2004, 5:53 am
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit struck down Friday new rules that extended the amount of time truck drivers could stay on the road between breaks. [read post]
30 Nov 2007, 8:37 am
[JURIST] All convicted federal felons must provide DNA samples to a federal database available to police departments throughout the country, a divided panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled [opinion, PDF] Thursday. [read post]
19 Nov 2008, 8:12 pm
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] has vacated [order, PDF] a district court judge's contempt order [text, PDF; JURIST report] against former USA Today reporter Toni Locy [faculty profile] in connection with her refusal to disclose sources for articles she wrote about the 2001 anthrax attacks [GWU backgrounder]. [read post]
9 May 2009, 3:35 am
[JURIST] An official for the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs [official website] Friday confirmed the government's intention to appeal a Federal Court ruling [text; JURIST report] directing the government to firmly push for the repatriation of Canadian Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials, JURIST news archive]. [read post]
5 May 2006, 8:01 am
Edwards on Friday criticized new Bush administration rules that make it easier for law enforcement officials to wiretap Internet phone calls during arguments in front of the federal appeals court in Washington, DC. [read post]
14 Feb 2019, 12:13 am
We previously looked at the stark disparity among the Court of Appeals Judges in the number of CLA's (Crimnal Leave Applications) they granted last year. [read post]
23 Feb 2006, 12:52 pm
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] has granted a rehearing [court order, PDF] in a case challenging the native-only admissions policy of a Hawaiian school. [read post]
31 Jul 2006, 9:03 am
[JURIST] ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte [official profile] has appealed the two-year prison sentence [press release] for Naser Oric [ICTY case backgrounder], a former senior commander of Bosnian Muslim forces in Srebrenica convicted of war crimes [JURIST report]. [read post]
14 May 2008, 10:03 am
[JURIST] A Texas appeals court Wednesday overturned [opinion text] a jury verdict [JURIST report] that found pharmaceutical giant Merck [corporate website] liable for the death of a 71-year-old man who died from a heart attack within a month of taking Merck's painkiller Vioxx [Merck Vioxx Information Center website; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
2 Oct 2008, 7:28 pm
It then proceeded to a recap of her tenure on the Court of Appeals via a selection (a highly subjective one to be sure) of her best opinions over that 25 year period. [read post]
27 May 2005, 5:53 pm
[JURIST] The Bush administration has asked the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals [official website] to overturn a decision [opinion text] made last year by a US District Court preventing the government from conducting secret searches of communications records. [read post]
7 Jul 2006, 4:47 am
[JURIST] An appeals chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [official website] on Friday increased the sentence for former Rwandan mayor Sylvestre Gacumbitsi [case materials] to life in prison [press release], revising his 30-year prison sentence [JURIST report], handed down in 2004. [read post]
10 Jan 2007, 7:37 am
[JURIST] A federal appeals court heard oral arguments Wednesday on whether the government should be permitted to reinstate a charge against alleged terrorist Jose Padilla [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
