Canadian Gitmo detainee seeks change of lawyers as military hearings get underway
Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee and Canadian citizen Omar Khadr on Wednesday asked the judge presiding over Khadr's military trial to delay proceedings so that Khadr could secure counsel with more trial experience....
Bush authorized warrantless phone, email tracking of US residents
A 2002 Presidential order issued in the aftermath of 9/11 authorized the US National Security Agency (NSA) to secretly monitor the international telephone calls and international e-mail messages of possibly thousands of US residents without warrants over...
The Texas trial of US Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) on money laundering charges is expected to begin early next year after Judge Pat Priest on Monday dismissed a conspiracy charge [JURIST...
Family of 1969 race riot victim settle federal lawsuit for $2M
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...
Son of Adelphia founder pleads guilty to falsifying financial record
Michael Rigas, the former executive vice president of Adelphia Communications Corp. and son of founder John Rigas pleaded guilty in Manhattan Wednesday to falsifying a financial record. His plea negates the need for retrial on other charges...
David M. Hicks v. George W. Bush, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, November 14, 2005 [staying the military commission trial of Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks until the US Supreme Court rules on...
The military commission trial of Australian David Hicks , who has been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for more than 3 1/2 years, was postponed on Monday by a US district judge until the US Supreme...
Alito denies any wrongdoing in hearing 2002 mutual fund case
US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito said Thursday that during his 15 years as a federal court judge, he never knowingly ruled on a case in which he had an obligation to recuse...
JURIST Guest Columnist Richard Edwards, Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK, says that the new Terrorism Bill presented to Parliament by the Blair government in the wake of the London bombings...
Indonesian militants to face trial for Jakarta embassy bombing
Eleven militants in Indonesian custody have been declared terror suspects and police believe two of them may be involved in the September 2004 bombing of Australia's embassy in Jakarta which killed 11 people. The remaining...
