Padilla Sues Ex-Government Lawyer
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Jose Padilla, the American citizen who was held in military detention for more than three years as an enemy combatant, filed a lawsuit against a lawyer who helped provide the legal justifications for the episode.
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Jose Padilla's lawyers say the accused al-Qaida operative has mental problems stemming from his treatment during 3 1/2 years in solitary confinement and have asked a federal judge to decide whether he is competent to stand trial.
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Mexican pop diva Gloria Trevi has filed a lawsuit for libel against a promoter who allegedly said she was an accomplice in her daughter's death, Trevi's lawyer said Wednesday.
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Defense lawyers in the Jose Padilla terrorism support trial asked the judge to declare a mistrial Thursday after a juror saw one of Padilla's co-defendants in shackles outside the courtroom.
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CAIRO/ROME  - A Muslim cleric freed from a prison in Egypt four years after being grabbed in Milan in a suspected CIA kidnapping wants to sue former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi for damages, his lawyer said on Monday.
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Lawyers for the former deputy Malaysian leader attend a hearing to try to overturn his corruption conviction.
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The ex-dictator's lawyers allege a plot to sneak him out of the country and file suit to stop it.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Former immigration minister Judy Sgro has filed a lawsuit, making good on a threat to sue her accusers if they didn't retract allegations of influence peddling.
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The lawyer whom the FBI wrongly accused in the 2004 Madrid terrorist bombings was in court Monday to urge a judge to strike down provisions of the USA Patriot Act that helped investigators conduct what he says were unconstitutional searches of his home and office.
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The American Civil Liberties Union sued the U.S. government on Monday over what the rights group said was the wrongful deportation of a developmentally disabled U.S. citizen who is now missing in Mexico.
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The government made a secret video of its interrogations of 'enemy combatant' Jose Padilla. But now that he's on trial, the Feds claim they don't know where it went.
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Federal prosecutors have asked an appeals court to reinstate a key terrorism charge against alleged al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla, contending a judge erred in finding that it duplicated other counts in the same indictment.
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Suspected al-Qaeda conspirator Jose Padilla is not fit to stand trial, a psychiatrist called by his defence says.
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A federal judge refused Tuesday to acquit Jose Padilla and two co-defendants on terrorism support charges, clearing the way for defense lawyers to begin presenting their case this week.
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DALLAS, Sept. 18--Defense attorneys Tuesday accused the government of trying to convict five leaders of what was once the nation's largest Islamic charity based on the men's sympathy for Palestinian fighters.
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MIAMI, Oct. 6 -- Criminal charges against terrorism suspect Jose Padilla should be thrown out because of "outrageous government conduct" during his 3 1/2 -year detention in a Navy brig in South Carolina, Padilla's attorneys said in legal motions this week.
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The terror case against two of Jose Padilla's codefendants hinges on secretly recorded calls.