Search Results for: 2006-12-29

Madison v. US, US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, December 29, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

A US federal judge has rejected an eleventh-hour bid by lawyers for Saddam Hussein seeking a direct stay of execution. US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a 6-page ruling late Friday evening following a telephone conference with lawyers...

Iraqi officials have said that final preparations are underway for the execution by hanging of Saddam Hussein before 6 AM local Baghdad time (10 PM Friday ET). Observers eligible to witness the execution have been told...

A three-judge panel of the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Friday rejected an amicus brief filed by seven retired judges who argued that portions of the new Military Commissions Act [JURIST news...

The Saudi Arabia Interior Ministry announced Tuesday that the government has freed eighteen former Guantanamo Bay detainees "after meeting necessary legal conditions." A spokesperson for the ministry stated that the government will continue to try...

A federal appeals court Friday suspended a November order by US District Judge Richard Leon requiring the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to reinstate certain housing payments to Hurricane Katrina ...

Officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have said that a program providing temporary housing to victims of Hurricane Katrina could resume this week. US District Judge Richard Leon last month ordered [PDF...

US District Judge Richard J. Leon said Wednesday that systems set up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to manage housing payments for victims of Hurricane Katrina had created a "legal...

The nephew of former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was sentenced to a year in prison by a military tribunal Tuesday for his comments implicating the military in the assassination of his uncle over 25 years ago [BBC...

Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami has been served with a summons for a lawsuit by a group of Jewish Iranians while on a two-week visit to the United States . The lawsuit was filed Thursday in...