WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- About one-quarter of the civil appellate lawyers in the U.S. Justice Department have refused to get involved in appeals by Guantanamo detainees.
WASHINGTON, July 20 (UPI) -- A federal appeals court has ordered the Bush administration to turn over virtually all its files on detainees at Guantanamo, Cuba.
WASHINGTON, June 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court reversed course Friday and agreed to hear the appeals of detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay military prison on Cuba.
WASHINGTON, May 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court decided, in a 6-3 vote, not to hear appeals from two terror suspects facing military tribunals in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A U.S. appeals court told seven former federal judges, including two former chief judges, it did not want their views on detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
HUNTSVILLE, Texas, April 15 (UPI) -- A federal appeals court Tuesday halted the execution of a Texas killer two hours before he was scheduled to receive the lethal injection. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a district court to hear arguments that Kenneth Wayne Morris is mentall
WASHINGTON, March 11 (UPI) -- A federal appeals court Tuesday ruled that detainees captured in Afghanistan and held at a U.S. base do not have access to the courts or the Constitution. The a
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- A federal appeals court Thursday reversed a lower court ruling that had blocked the Clinton administration's controversial "roadless" forest rule. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said an Idaho court erroneously concluded the federal government rushed t
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WASHINGTON, April 26 (UPI) -- A federal appeals court in Washington Friday ruled in favor of four South American governments in separate lawsuits to recover damages from big tobacco companie