Search Results for: 2001-04-11

Jury selection begins Monday in Virginia for the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui to determine if the al-Qaida follower should be given life in prison or a death sentence...

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday held that the state's 1999 school voucher law violates the state constitutional requirement of a uniform system of free public schools. The Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) , which was...

A statement made by President Bush when he signed the 2006 defense spending bill last week allows Bush to bypass the law's ban on torture under his commander in chief powers, the Boston Globe reported...

In the weeks following the Sept. 11 attacks, the National Security Agency expanded its domestic surveillance program without formal authorization from President Bush, documents released Tuesday revealed. According to an October 2001 letter ...

The city of York, Pennsylvania, will pay a $2 million settlement to the relatives of a black woman shot to death during race riots in 1969. The two children and two sisters of Lilly Belle Allen will get a...

JURIST Guest Columnist Stephen Griffin of Tulane Law School says that barely 4 months after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans and dispersed its students and faculty, Tulane Law is re-opening its doors in January and looking forward to renewal of...

Federal prosecutors filed a proposed jury questionnaire in US district court Monday requesting permission to ask questions regarding the religious beliefs of potential jurors in the case against Zacarias Moussaoui for his...

Lawyers for Jumah Dossari , the Bahraini Guantanamo detainee identified as having made a suicide attempt during an October 15 visit by attorney Joshua Colangelo-Bryan , asked a federal judge Friday to order a...

Sandy Berger , who served as President Clinton's National Security Adviser from 1997 to 2001, was ordered to pay a $50,000 fine and surrender his security clearance for three years on Thursday after pleading guilty to taking and...

AP is reporting that the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the habeas appeal of Jose Padilla , ruling that the "dirty bomb" suspect can be detained without charges indefinitely. Padilla's attorneys had challenged his...