A federal judge in South Carolina Monday granted a motion for a writ of habeas corpus for Jose Padilla , giving the Bush administration 45 days to either charge the terror suspect with a crime or...
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The Supreme Court Monday granted certiorari to a case raising the question of when plaintiffs can sue in federal court, as opposed to state court. The question has lately sparked an important political debate, as plaintiffs often prefer to...
Senator Arlen Specter , chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee , said Thursday that the committee will hold confirmation hearings next week for William G. Myers III, nominated by President Bush to the Court of Appeals for...
Dismissal of newspaper First Amendment suit against MD governor [US DC]
Baltimore Sun Co. v. Ehrlich et al., District Court for the Northern District of Maryland, Judge William D. Quarles Jr., February 14, 2005 [dismissing a lawsuit brought by the Baltimore Sun challenging an order from Maryland Governor Robert L. Ehrlich...
US District Court Judge William D. Quarles Jr. has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Baltimore Sun challenging on First Amendment grounds an order from Maryland Governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. which barred thousands of state employees...
Ruling to maintain cap on recoveries for finance charge violations [US SC]
Koons Buick Pontiac GMC, Inc. v. Nigh, Supreme Court of the United States, November 30, 2004 [ruling that the damages cap of $1,000 on recoveries under the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) remained unchanged when Congress changed other TILA terms...
Bourgeois et al. v. Peters et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, October 15, 2004 . Excerpt: While the threat of terrorism...
US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, September 13, 2004. Read the opinion here . Excerpt: We are presented with questions of grave significance, questions that test the commitment of this nation to an independent judiciary, to the constitutional...
High Stakes in November: George W. Bush and the Future Federal Judiciary
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego says that perhaps the most far-reaching impact of the upcoming November election is who will get to appoint the nation's judges - including its Supreme Court...
Sun Microsystems v. Microsoft, emergency stay application by Microsoft to the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit seeking to delay implementation of a District Court order pending appeal and a motion to expedite Microsoft's appeal of the order,...
