Judges tosses terror financing lawsuit
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A federal judge threw out a lawsuit Friday against an international financial database used by the government to track terrorist funding, finding no proof that money transfers by two Americans were targeted.
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A federal immigration judge in Los Angeles yesterday dismissed a 20-year-old effort by the U.S. government to deport two Palestinian activists who once supported a group later determined to be a terrorist organization, calling Washington's lengthy case against the men "an embarrassment to the rule...
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Europe's second-highest court on  Tuesday annulled an EU decision freezing the funds of an exiled  Iranian opposition group that argues it was wrongly placed on  the European Union's list of terrorist organizations.
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A federal judge in Texas yesterday threw out a lawsuit against Halliburton Co. that had been brought by survivors and the families of those killed when a fuel convoy was assaulted by insurgents outside Baghdad in April 2004.
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Saudi Arabia, its defense minister and its ambassador to Britain won a ruling in a U.S. court on Tuesday dismissing them as defendants in massive litigation growing out of the September 11th attacks on America.
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Lawyers for the city said the ruling exceeded the judgeâs authority and would harm efforts to deter terrorism.
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A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit on Wednesday against a unit of Boeing Co that charged the firm helped fly terrorism suspects abroad to secret prisons.
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A federal judge upheld the Bush administration's new terrorism law Wednesday, agreeing that Guantanamo Bay detainees do not have the right to challenge their imprisonment in U.S. courts.
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A Pakistani court dropped terrorism  charges on Wednesday against a Pakistani-British dual national  suspected of being a key figure in a plot to blow up airliners  over the Atlantic Ocean, his lawyer said.
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A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by a German man who said he was illegally detained and tortured in overseas prisons run by the CIA, ruling that a lawsuit would improperly expose state secrets.
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The Justice Department on Wednesday assailed its own legal strategy in the case that had brought its first courtroom victory in the war on terror.
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Part of the Patriot Act, a central plank of the Bush Administration's war on terror, was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge Wednesday.
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A U.S. court on Thursday dismissed the  convictions of two Arab men, the first to be prosecuted and  tried on terror-related charges following the Sept. 11 attacks,  after the government conceded errors in handling the case.
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A federal judge has dismissed a New York Times lawsuit against the Department of Defense and the Department of Justice, saying classified documents the newspaper was seeking under the Freedom of Information Act were properly withheld.
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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday curbed investor lawsuits against businesses accused of scheming to inflate stock prices.
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Canada's Supreme Court on Friday struck down a controversial anti-terror law which allows foreign suspects to be detained indefinitely on the basis of secret evidence.
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A federal judge struck down President Bush's authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-Sept. 11 executive order was unconstitutional and vague, according to a ruling released Tuesday.