An Iraqi-born political asylee and legal permanent U.S. resident who served as a guide for U.S. troops, and whose brother was murdered and father tortured by the Islamic State group in revenge for it, filed a habeas petition seeking relief from a private prison in Conroe, Texas.
Read moreFighting to end the 41-year captivity at the Bronx Zoo of an Asian elephant named Happy, a nonprofit says the legal battle it started has been languishing in a court west of Rochester for over a month.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit rejected an application from a California prisoner convicted of murder to file a second habeas corpus petition due to his failure to discover alleged suppressed evidence while filing his previous petition.
Read moreThough they agreed that the case did not merit review, Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg voiced grave concerns Monday at the rejection of a death-penalty challenge.
Read moreThe Justice Department’s Office for Victims of Crime boosted its budget this year but nixed funding for a vital legal service that helps human trafficking survivors move forward: expungement of prostitution charges.
Read moreAn ACLU attorney told a Ninth Circuit panel Thursday the U.S. government’s refusal to grant asylum to a Sri Lankan member of the Tamil ethnic minority or allow him to appeal the decision is unconstitutional.
Read moreExplaining why it refused to let an undisclosed country take custody of a man suspected of fighting for the Islamic State group, the D.C. Circuit noted that the U.S. government’s maneuver appears unprecedented.
Read moreAs New York’s highest court closed the book on an effort to endow chimpanzees with human rights, vying to free two from captivity, a judge emphasized that the philosophical quandary underpinning the suit remains.
Read moreA former Lithuanian judge sued the federal government Monday to block her extradition, claiming she faces possible persecution and even death in her home country after bringing to light child-molestation accusations against high-ranking officials.
Read moreDefending its enemy-combatant designation of a U.S. citizen captured on the Islamic State battlefield, the government told the D.C. Circuit on Friday that courts cannot review its decision to transfer the man from Iraq.
Read moreA divided Supreme Court on Tuesday held that when a federal habeas court is tasked with a reviewing an unexplained state-court decision, it should look to last related ruling that provides a rationale and presume the latter court adopted that reasoning as its own.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union brought national firepower Thursday to the case of a man with schizophrenia who has been denied a bond hearing while he faces deportation to Haiti for subway-turnstile mischief.
Read moreThe Supreme Court opened a window Wednesday for a death-row prisoner in Texas to fund an investigation of his mental health history.
Read morePushing a federal judge to step in, attorneys in Massachusetts say their client has never been convicted of a crime but could be deported because immigration officials refuse to let him attend his own court hearings.
Read moreQuoting a juror’s signed affidavit questioning whether black people had souls, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a hearing Monday on whether his involvement in a capital trial prejudiced its outcome.
Read moreAttorneys revealed Friday that they will sue for the release of a U.S. citizen being held without charge in Iraq on suspicion of fighting for the Islamic State group.
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The justices of the Supreme Court seemed divided on Monday on how to resolve differing interpretations of habeas time limits in death-penalty cases.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal petition Thursday challenging the detention of a U.S. citizen who allegedly fought with the Islamic State and was captured on the battlefield in Syria last month.
Read moreA class of Iraqi nationals represented by the American Civil Liberties Union sued Thursday to challenge the deportations of more than 100 immigrants arrested in Detroit last weekend, asking that they be allowed to remain in the United States to seek stays of removal.
Read moreRuling against a group that seeks personhood recognition for chimpanzees, a New York appeals court refused Thursday to free a pair of caged primates.
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