More could be deemed enemy combatants by bill

9-26-2006 • Reuters

The United States could detain more foreigners as enemy combatants under legislation Congress will debate this week after a last-minute change in the bill.

FBI Is Casting A Wider Net in Anthrax Attacks

9-25-2006 • Washington Post

5 years after the anthrax attacks that killed 5 people, the FBI is now convinced that the lethal powder sent to the Senate was far less sophisticated than originally believed, widening the pool of possible suspects in a frustratingly slow investigati

Amendment E polls at 67%

09-24-2006 • Dakota Voice

The amendment would allow the creation of a citizen's oversight committee or special grand jury which would hear complaints of alleged judicial misconduct against judges. If a judge if found guilty 3 times of having engaged in judical misconduct

Feds Drop Count in Hamas Terrorism Trial

9-25-2006 • AP

Federal prosecutors dropped a charge that an alleged fundraiser for the Palestinian militant group Hamas gave material support to terrorists - a move that stunned defense attorneys. Prosecutors gave no explanation in court and declined to comment

Academic claims rape cases down because porn use up

9-23-2006 • Raw Story

An academic has claimed to RAW STORY that a decline in reported rape of 85% in the past 25 years can be tied to an increase in pornography consumption. In a study for Northwestern University's Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series

For detainees: less access to US courts?

9-22-2006 • Christian Science Monitor

In a significant but little-discussed move, the Bush administration is asking Congress to strip the federal courts of jurisdiction to hear cases brought by Guantánamo detainees challenging the legality of their confinement.

Fitzgerald given way out in Libby case

09-22-2006 • MSNBC

The judge in the CIA leak case ruled Thursday that if Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald feels that admitting certain classified document at the upcoming trial of I Lewis "Scooter" Libby can jeopardize national security, Fitzgerald can then

Cory Maye will not sleep on death row tonight

09-22-2006 • theAgitator.com

I have my quarrels with that ruling, obviously. But in the short run, it means that Cory will at the very least get a new sentencing trial. And until and if that happens, he will no longer be on death row -- and for the moment is no longer condemned

New Orleans nursing home owners indicted

9-21-2006 • AP

The husband and wife owners of a nursing home near New Orleans were indicted on charges of negligent homicide and cruelty in the deaths of 35 patients who perished in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. [Government's culpability?]

U.S. bounty hunter turns legal bind into TV special

9-19-2006 • Reuters

Bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman, arrested last week as a fugitive from Mexican authorities, is turning his legal predicament into a special edition of his hit cable TV show on the A&E channel this week.

'Alternative' CIA tactics complicate Padilla case

9-15-2006 • Christian Science Monitor

When alleged Al Qaeda sympathizer Jose Padilla landed in Chicago in May 2002, he was met by federal agents armed with a warrant authorizing them to take him into custody. To obtain their warrant, the agents told a federal judge that two weeks earl

Criminal charges may be refiled against Tom Delay

9-14-2006 • USA Today

Texas' highest criminal appeals court said it would consider reinstating a dropped conspiracy charge against former House majority leader Tom DeLay, further delaying his trial on felony money laundering and conspiracy counts.

California may file charges in HP case in a week

9-14-2006 • Reuters

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer may file criminal charges within a week in an investigation into the tactics employed by Hewlett-Packard Co. to probe boardroom leaks. Have enough evidence to file charges against people in HP and outside cont

'Girls Gone Wild' producers fined $2.1 million

9-14-2006 • CNN

The entertainment company that produces the "Girls Gone Wild" films and its founder pleaded guilty to charges they failed to document the ages of female performers in sexually oriented productions.

Senate Republicans seek deal on terrorism trials

9-13-2006 • Reuters

Senate Republicans struggled for an agreement on legislation to set up trials for foreign terrorism suspects as the White House lobbied for its plan that critics said could allow abusive interrogations and deprive suspects of basic rights.

US wants terror suspect to be tried in Iraq

09-12-2006 • AP

Government attorneys said Monday that US courts have no authority to stop the military from transferring an American citizen to an Iraqi court to face charges he supported terrorists and insurgents. The case is the latest legal challenge

2 Republican Senators hold up Bush's Judicial pick

9-13-2006 • The Hill

Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IO) and Jeff Sessions (R-AL) are holding up the nomination of Peter D. Keisler to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Bush administration’s top priority on judicial nominees. They want the seat eliminated.

Animal rights activists sentenced to 4 to 6 years

9-13-2006 • Reuters

Three animal rights activists convicted under a U.S. anti-terrorism law were sentenced to up to 6 years in prison for a web site against a British company that tests chemicals on animals. Defendants were exercising their free-speech rights, an

FDA fines the Red Cross

09-09-2006 • AP

The government said Friday it was fining the American Red Cross a record $4.2 million for violatin blood-safety laws. The violations include failing to reject donors who had traveled to malarial areas and allowing blood and related products

US generals criticize Bush plan on terrorism trials

9-8-2006 • Reuters

The U.S. military's top legal officers criticized a White House plan for military tribunals to try foreign terrorism suspects because it would allow convictions based on evidence never seen by the defendants.

Pentagon lawyers Challenge White House

09-08-2006 • AP

The Pentagon's top uniformed lawyers took issue yesterday with a key part of a White House plan to prosecute suspected terrorism detainees, telling Congress that limiting the suspects' access to evidence could violate treaty obligations.

3 Republican senators among critics of military tribunal plan

9-7-2006 • USA Today

President Bush's long-awaited plan for military commissions to try foreign terrorist suspects was criticized by fellow Republicans who said the proposal, which omits many of the usual safeguards of a military trial, doesn't go far enough to p

Military lawyers question Bush plan for trials

9-8-2006 • AP

The Pentagon’s top uniformed lawyers took issue with a key part of a White House plan to prosecute terrorism detainees, telling Congress that limiting the suspects’ access to evidence could violate treaty obligations. [Bill of Rights?]

Terror lawyer could get life behind bars

9-6-2006 • New York Daily News

A civil rights lawyer convicted of helping a notorious terrorist client is frightened at the prospect of spending the rest of her life behind bars, one of her attorneys said. "She's scared," Jill Shellow-Levine said of Lynne Stewart,

Charges thrown out against men suspected of planning terrorism

9-6-2006 • AP

A federal judge threw out conspiracy and money laundering charges against 3 Texas men who originally were accused of planning terrorism, saying there wasn't enough evidence to bring them to trial. [too many cell phones]

Big Brother Blair Wants You Yanks in His Prison

9-3-2006 • Daily Kos

Your personal liberty and fundamental civil rights are at stake. John Ashcroft, George Bush and Tony Blair have come up with a scheme to cancel all Constitutional guarantees to due process, and to enable the Bush Administration to seize you and send

Nuremberg prosecutor says Bush should stand trial

08-29-2006 • One World

A chief prosecutor of Nazi war crimes at Nuremberg has said George W. Bush should be tried for war crimes along with Saddam Hussein. Benjamin Ferencz, who secured convictions for 22 Nazi officers for their work in orchestrating

JonBenet suspect case dropped

8-29-2006 • Reuters

John Mark Karr, the schoolteacher who made worldwide headlines by confessing to one of America's most notorious unsolved crimes, the murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, was abruptly dropped as a suspect after the case against him collapsed.

Driving with Money is now a Crime

08-23-2006 • The Newspaper

A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that if a motorist is carrying large sums of money, it is automatically subject to confiscation. In the case entitled, "USA v. $124,700 in US Currency," the US Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit

Judge tosses one charge in Padilla case

08-22-2006 • Zionsville Times Sen.(Ind)

A federal judge on Monday threw out one count in the terror indictment against alleged al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla and his co-defedents, concluding that it repeated other charges in the same indictment. The ruling by US District Judge