Judge Reinstates Rules on Sonar, Criticizing Bushâs Waiver for Navy
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The decision to restore a series of provisions meant to protect whales was a rebuke to an effort by the Bush administration to exempt the Navy from those rules and from federal law.
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By AUDREY McAVOY  HONOLULU - The Navy says it won't comply with sonar training restrictions that aim to protect marine mammals off the California coast, arguing that the commission that imposed the rules does not have the jurisdiction to do so.  The U.S.
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A federal judge in New York struck down one of the Bush administration&#39;s new surveillance powers yesterday, ruling that a USA Patriot Act provision
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A federal judge in Los Angeles, who previously struck down sections of the Patriot Act, has ruled that provisions of an anti-terrorism order issued by President George W. Bush after September 11 are unconstitutional.
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The Bush administration changed guidelines for enforcing a Supreme Court ruling on the Clean Water Act.
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A federal judge has ruled that the Bush administration exceeded constitutional authority - and ignored the Geneva Conventions - when it set up military commissions to try terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay.
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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 federal judge ruled that the president overstepped his constitutional bounds in establishing commissions to try detainees at GuantÃ¡namo Bay, Cuba.
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President Bush has exempted the Navy from environmental laws designed to protect whales from potentially harmful sonar.
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A federal judge Wednesday threw out the Bush administration's policy on logging and mining on 49 million acres of national forests, The New York Times said. Judge Elizabeth LaPorte of the U.S.
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A federal judge on Monday dealt a  major setback to the Bush administration by halting as unlawful  the military tribunal trial of a Guantanamo prisoner accused of  being Osama bin Laden's bodyguard and driver.
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Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspects  have the constitutional right to pursue lawsuits challenging  their imprisonment, a federal judge ruled on Monday in a defeat  for the Bush administration that struck down how the U.S.  military reviewed their cases.
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A U.S. appeals court has put on hold a lower court injunction blocking the U.S. Navy from using a type of sonar that wildlife supporters say harms whales in exercises off the California coast.
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In denouncing the way the Bush administration has denied aid to tens of thousands of victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, a federal judge in Washington last week pulled back the curtain on a deeper mystery 15 months after the nation's costliest natural disaster:
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A federal judge on Thursday struck down President Bush's warrantless surveillance program, saying it violated the rights to free speech and privacy, as well as the separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution.
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A federal judge ruled yesterday that a portion of the Patriot Act is unconstitutional, the first time one of the anti-terrorism law&#39;s police surveillance provisions has been struck down.
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A federal judge in California is scheduled to release a decision this week that will outline what the Navy must do to protect whales and other marine mammals from the loud blasts of its sonar equipment.