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...not bring conspiracy charges as a stand-alone offense against detainees, because of an October 2012 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in the case of Salim Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden. The ruling...
...agreement between Golden Valley Electric Association, the state of Alaska and federal regulators was approved Monday by U.S. Court Judge Ralph Beistline, according to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, citing a GVEA statement.GVEA interim President...
...Washington, for any changes to election procedures. It now applies to all or parts of 16 states.In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said that Congress developed extensive evidence of continuing racial...
...challenger, Kimberly Craven of Boulder, Colo., said they are considering their options.The three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia dismissed the challenge by Craven, who had objected that the settlement did...
...might not be so sure. Take Richard Posner, the intellectual leader of conservative judges and scholars who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago. Posner shocked many last month when he cut off an attorney for the American Civil Liberties...
...for land rights and in 1947, our people turned to the U.S. courts by filing a land claims lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Claims. He died eight years prior to the birth of...
...of Alaska aboriginal rights - a lawsuit decided by the U.S. Court of Claims in 1959 - nearly resulted in the exclusion...miscarriage of justice. (Briefly, the case was won in the U.S. Court of Claims in 1959, but it took another nine years to...
...global positioning system device surreptitiously attached to his Jeep by law enforcement agents without a warrant. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued a broad ruling in Jones' favor, holding that the blanket electronic...
...provision defining marriage between a man and a woman."Advocates hoped a recent decision by the Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, which overturned California's same-sex marriage ban, would have wider impact so court challenges could...
...Facilities Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States that was sent out last month to the chief judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals.The memo contained a cost-benefit analysis for the potential closing of the 60 court facilities listed...