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Republican lawmakers in the Senate on Thursday agreed to delay the Streamlined Procedures Act of 2005 , a bill limiting the rights of death row inmates to extend appeals in federal courts, because of strong Democratic opposition. The bill...

Press statement on resumption of military commissions, US Department of Defense, July 18, 2005 . Excerpt:The Office of Military Commissions...

The US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia will take up the case of Jose Padilla Tuesday, the latest in a series of twists and turns the litigation has taken. The proceeding comes after...

Enwonwu v. Chertoff, et al., US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, July 13, 2005 [ruling chastising Congress for a "virtually unprecedented" attack on judicial independence and for putting a "chokehold" on federal courts by removing, via the Real...

Petition for writ of habeas corpus, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, July 6, 2005 [ACLU-filed lawsuit against the US government on behalf of a US citizen detained by US forces in Iraq since...

Leading Monday's international brief, Sudanese Speaker of the National Assembly Ahmad Ibrahim al-Tahir has announced that the Sudanese Parliament will approve the draft interim constitution scheduled for final reading on Wednesday, July 6. The Sudan Parliament adopted...

A committee of lawyers created for Saddam Hussein's defense team has filed a writ of habeas corpus in the US requesting that he be taken out of Iraq for his upcoming trial, a move anticipated as far...

In two related cases, the US Supreme Court ruled Monday that states are permitted to impose registration fees on trucks and other commercial vehicles that travel at least part of the time on a state's roadways. Read the Court's...

Lawyers for "dirty bomb" suspect Jose Padilla have asked the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of Padilla's indefinite military detention. The Supreme Court considered Padilla's case last year, but dismissed the case on jurisdictional...

Rhines v. Weber, Supreme Court of the United States, March 30, 2005 [ruling that a federal district court has discretion to stay (rather than being compelled to dismiss) a habeas corpus petition which includes exhausted and unexhausted claims, in order...