Category «Courts»

US v Libby Legal Proceedings

Libby Trial Exhibits: “Due to public interest in this case, the Department of Justice is releasing the government exhibits in the format admitted in the court. The Department recognizes that these documents are in some cases not in an accessible format.” Related postings on Libby Legal Times (registration free), Prosecution Calls Libby a Liar During …

Subjects: Courts, E-Government, Legal Research

Challenges to Copyright Law Rejected By 9th Circuit

Stanford Center for Internet and Society: ” Kahle v. Gonzales – In this case, two archives ask the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to hold that statutes that extended copyright terms unconditionally — the Copyright Renewal Act and the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA)— are unconstitutional under the Free Speech Clause …

Subjects: Copyright, Courts, Legal Research, Libraries

Inter-American Court Decision on Access to Info Posted on Court Website

“The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has announced that the English translation of its decision in the case Claude Reyes et al v. Chile is already available at the Court’s website: (link to the word document version)…in this case the Inter-American Court upheld that the right to access to information is a human right under …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Legal Research

Commentary on Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Fairness Standard

Hass, Douglas A., “Crafting Military Commissions Post-Hamdan: The Military Commissions Act of 2006”. Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 82, Spring 2007 Available at SSRN. “This Note summarizes whether terrorist attacks implicate the laws of war, what protections are due parties detained in the War on Terror, and concludes that only the laws applicable to non-international armed …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Legal Research

Oversight of Domestic Surveillance Program Shifts to Secret Court

In a letter today to Senators Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter, Chairman and Ranking Member, Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Gonzales stated, “…a Judge of the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) issued orders authorizing the Government to target for collection international communications into or out of the United States where there is a probable cause …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, E-Government, Government Documents, Privacy

AG Gonzales Criticizes Federal Judges and Rulings on National Security Issues

Prepared Remarks of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., January 17, 2007: “…A strong and independent Judiciary is necessary for our republic to remain strong, for our democracy to survive, and for the rule of law to flourish. To understand what I mean by independence, let me first clarify …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

FOIA Request for Records on Judicial Nominee Blocked by White House

Press release: “President Bush has renominated controversial Peter Keisler to the D.C. Circuit. The White House is still stonewalling the Senate and the American public by blocking the release of relevant public records from Keisler’s tenure [see the July 20, 2006 FOIA request] in the Office of Counsel during the Reagan Administration. People For the …

Subjects: Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

Judicial Salaries at Top of Court Administrator's Agenda

Follow-up to January 1, 2007 posting on the Chief Justice’s Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary, 2006 whose sole topic was, “the failure to raise judicial pay,” see today’s Legal Times article, Judicial Salaries at Top of Court Administrator’s Agenda and an Op-Ed: Judicial Pay Crucial to Our Courts’ Future, by Karen J. Mathis, President, …

Subjects: Courts