Ruling from the bench, a federal judge has found that five Algerian men were held unlawfully for nearly seven years at the U.S. military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against environmental groups seeking to limit the Navy’s use of sonar in training exercises to protect whales near the California coast.
In a potential move that could change the landscape of the nation’s criminal justice system, president-elect Barack Obama reportedly has asked his advisers to put together a plan to close…
A retired U.S. Navy commander has been criminally charged with allegedly faking a serious injury from the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the Pentagon.
A military jury at Guantanamo has convicted the propaganda chief for al-Qaida and sentenced him to life in prison. The sentence was markedly longer than the…
A military judge has found that Afghan police tortured a youth later transferred to Guantanamo Bay, and the confession he gave as a result cannot be used at his trial.
Lawyers representing Sept. 11 suspect Ramzi Binalshibh have won permission to inspect a secret detention center at Guantanamo Bay where he is being held.
A federal judge’s definition of the term “enemy combatant” matches that used by the Pentagon in 2004 and more than 550 tribunals that reviewed the status of detainees at Guantanamo…
A military lawyer appointed to defend an unwilling client in a terrorism trial before a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has joined his client in refusing to participate in…
The Pentagon official who oversees the war crimes tribunals at Guantanamo Bay is facing two investigations into allegations he bullied prosecutors and retaliated against at least two military officials.
Charges have been dropped against five terrorism suspects at Guantanamo with links to Abu Zubaydah, an al-Qaida recruiter who was subjected to waterboarding during interrogations.
A Guantanamo military prosecutor who cited “ethical qualms” before he quit had wrestled with the decision, telling an online priest about his misgivings.
A Georgetown law professor says environmental plaintiffs have not fared well in the U.S. Supreme Court when citing the National Environmental Policy Act, and plaintiffs who claim Navy sonar harms…
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