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US Torture as a Tort? Expanding Remedies for Victims
JURIST Guest Columnist Richard Seamon of the University of Idaho School of Law says that in light of ever-increasing evidence of detainee abuse by US personnel or parties acting with the approval or complicity of the United States, Congress should ch (More) |
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DOJ, Google to spar over search data in federal court
Google goes to federal court on Tuesday - backed by online privacy advocate groups - to fight a Bush administration subpoena that seeks to force the search engine giant to hand over an enormous amount of its user data, including one week's wort (More) |
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Undue Influence? Ideology and Supreme Court Law Clerks
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Todd Peppers of Roanoke College, author of the forthcoming book Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of Supreme Court Law Clerks (Stanford University Press, 2006) says that although Justice Samuel Alit (More) |
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US settles post-Sept. 11 detainee lawsuit
The US government has agreed to a $300,000 settlement of claims by an Egyptian that he was abused while being detained by US authorities for months following the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The settlement reached with Ehab Elmaghraby is the first reac (More) |
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Canadian extraordinary rendition ruling [US DC]
Arar v. Ashcroft, United States District Court, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, February 16, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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DOJ argues against Ashcroft testimony on NSA surveillance
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) seeking to dissuade the committee from calling former Attorney General John Ashcroft and Deputy Attorney General James Comey to testify before (More) |
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Alito chooses former Ashcroft aide as law clerk
New US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has chosen Adam G. Ciongoli, a former counselor to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft as one of his five law clerks. Ciongoli, 37, who currently serves as a senior vice president at Time Warner , cler (More) |
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Gonzales concludes day of testimony on domestic surveillance
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales late Monday concluded a day of testimony before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on the Bush administration's controversial domestic surveillance program . Although Gonzales maintained that the wiretappin (More) |
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The Supreme Court and Death With Dignity in Oregon
JURIST Guest Columnist Valerie Vollmar of Willamette University College of Law says that the recent US Supreme Court ruling upholding Oregon's physician-assisted suicide law is a major step towards ensuring dignified choices to terminally ill Oregoni (More) |
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Sept. 11 detainees move forward with abuse lawsuit
Six non-US citizens who were arrested and detained on visa violations as "persons of interest" in terror investigations after the Sept. 11 attacks return to the United States this week to give depositions in a lawsuit filed against detenti (More) |
Montgomery started racially-integrated bus service after boycott
On December 21, 1956, buses in Montgomery, Alabama, started racially-integrated service following federal court rulings ending on-board segregation.
Bus boycott leaders Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy were among the first riders under the new scheme. Learn about the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
