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Judge dismisses el-Masri CIA rendition suit on state secrets grounds

May 18, 2006 07:18:00 PM

A federal judge Thursday dismissed a highly-publicized lawsuit brought by the ACLU against CIA Director George Tenet and other agency officials and employees on behalf of Khalid El-Masri , a German national who alleges...

May 12, 2006 02:16:00 PM

US government lawyers urged a federal judge Friday to dismiss a civil lawsuit filed by Khalid el-Masri against former CIA director George Tenet and other CIA officials. El-Masri is a German national who alleges...

October 31, 2005 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Christopher Schroeder of Duke University Law School says that the claim that "executive privilege" concerns required the withdrawal of US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers has been overstated, and that senatorial requests for information on her White...

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Iraqi constitution draft [AP]

August 24, 2005 10:22:00 PM

Complete text of the draft Iraqi constitution, as translated from the Arabic by the Associated Press :PREAMBLECHAPTER ONE: BASIC PRINCIPLESCHAPTER TWO: RIGHTS AND FREEDOMSPART ONE: RIGHTSPART TWO: FREEDOMSCHAPTER THREE: THE FEDERAL AUTHORITIESPART ONE: THE LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITYPART TWO:...

July 5, 2005 10:39:00 PM

US v. Romo, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, July 5, 2005 [ruling that the prison therapist of a Montana inmate did not violate the psychologist-pateint privilege when he contacted the Secret Service to report a letter...

May 7, 2005 11:33:00 AM

The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Friday upheld a lower court dismissal of a case brought by fired FBI translator Sibel Edmonds alleging security lapses in the FBI's translator program. The...

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CIA spy suit ruling [US SC]

March 2, 2005 01:25:00 PM

Tenet v. Doe, Supreme Court of the United States, March 2, 2005 [ruling that two former spys for the CIA could not sue the agency for support after it had backed out of an alleged agreement to provide them with...

March 2, 2005 10:52:00 AM

Unanimously reversing a Ninth Circuit ruling , the US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in Tenet v. Doe that two former spies for the CIA could not sue the agency for support after it...

February 24, 2005 01:37:00 PM

Two medical clinics have asked the Kansas Supreme Court to intercede in secret investigation by Attorney General Phill Kline seeking medical records of females seeking late-term abortions. Kline wants the records in an attempt to...

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