Federal Judge Rules Gitmo Trials Unlawful
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Military trials set up to determine the guilt or innocence of enemy combatants imprisoned at a U.S. military prison in Cuba are unlawful and cannot continue in their current form, a federal judge ruled this afternoon.
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Acting at the request of prosecutors, a federal judge on Thursday threw out the terrorism charges against two men convicted last year in a case once hailed by the Bush administration as a major victory in the war on terror.
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DETROIT - A federal judge yesterday threw out the terrorism charges against two men convicted last year in a case once hailed by the Bush administration as a major victory in the war on terror.
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A federal judge on Wednesday ruled a portion of the Patriot Act is unconstitutional, the first time one of the antiterrorism law&#39;s controversial police surveillance provisions has been struck down.
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Attorneys for at least 40 Guantanamo Bay prisoners have been barred from visiting or writing their clients because of a judge's order dismissing legal challenges to the men's confinement, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday.
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GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- The government's new system for trying Guantanamo detainees was thrown into turmoil yesterday, when military judges in separate decisions dismissed war-crimes charges against two detainees.
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A US judge drops charges against two Guantanamo Bay inmates, in a setback for efforts to try terror suspects.
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A federal judge on Monday halted the  trial of a Guantanamo prisoner accused of being Osama bin  Laden's bodyguard and driver, a major setback for the Bush  administration.
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A federal judge expressed skepticism yesterday that he should order a special judicial probe into whether the Bush administration could have destroyed evidence related to suspected enemy fighters at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, because of the CIA's recent acknowledgment that it...
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In a victory for President Bush, a divided federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Guantanamo Bay detainees cannot use the U.S. court system to challenge their indefinite imprisonment. A Supreme Court appeal was promised.
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WASHINGTON: A US federal court has halted a trial at Guantanamo Bay of a former driver for al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden. The judge said it must first be determined whether Salim Ahmed Hamdan, from Yemen, was covered by the Geneva conventions.
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- The Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. lacks   power to proceed with Guantanamo military tribunals. Details to   follow.
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WASHINGTON -- The decision by US military judges Monday to dismiss the war crimes charges against two detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has reignited a debate over how to try those accused of terrorism, prompting members of Congress to challenge the Bush administration over a legal system they say denies proper rights to detainees and has yet to bring ...
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GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba  - A U.S. war crimes tribunal at Guantanamo came to a screeching halt on Monday when a military judge dropped all the charges against a young Canadian in a ruling that could preclude trying any of the 380 prisoners any time soon.
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An appeals court on Tuesday upheld the part of a tough anti-terrorism law signed by President George W. Bush that took away the right of Guantanamo prisoners to challenge their detention before U.S. federal judges.
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A Guantanamo prisoner who won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June lost a legal challenge over his detention on Wednesday when a federal judge dismissed the case, citing an anti-terrorism law recently signed by President George W. Bush.
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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday a request by a Guantanamo prisoner accused of being Osama bin Laden's bodyguard for an immediate ruling on the legality of tribunals for terrorism suspects being held at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba.