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Montana Standard
April 27, 2018
Lawyers for the U.S. Department of Justice and Atlantic Richfield Company held a status conference by phone with U.S. District Court Judge Sam Haddon ... Albert "Kell" Kelly, EPA's senior advisor, told The Montana Standard two weeks ago during a visit from Washington, D.C. that he'd never heard of aÃâà...
CNN
April 27, 2018
"A civil case is not the appropriate vehicle for taking issue with what a prosecutor has done in the past or where he might be headed in the future," Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the US District Court in Washington, DC, wrote Friday. Manafort's decision to bring the civil case in DC appeared to be aÃâà...
Hawaiipublicradio
April 26, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday in Hawai'i's challenge to President Trump's latest travel ban. HPR's Wayne ... He was the first state Attorney General to challenge the Presidential travel ban in Federal District Court and won. He attended ... That can't be the law of the United States.”.
PBS NewsHour
April 26, 2018
WASHINGTON — The parents of U.S. college student Otto Warmbier have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against North Korea, saying its government tortured and killed their son. Fred and Cindy Warmbier filed the lawsuit Thursday in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.. The lawsuit seeksÃâà...
TIME
April 26, 2018
(WASHINGTON) — The parents of U.S. college student Otto Warmbier have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against North Korea, saying its government tortured and killed their son. Fred and Cindy Warmbier filed the lawsuit Thursday in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.. The lawsuit seeksÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 26, 2018
The parents of U.S. college student Otto Warmbier have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against North Korea, saying its government tortured and killed their son. ... Fred and Cindy Warmbier filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., seeking compensation for the death of the 22-year-old,Ãâà...
The Spokesman-Review
April 25, 2018
15 on behalf of Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho. Attorneys representing Planned Parenthood and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services both presented oral arguments Tuesday morning before U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Rice, who issued his written rulingÃâà...
University of California
April 25, 2018
We are buoyed by the ruling of a third federal judge that the administration broke the law when it tried to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The ruling of U.S. District Court Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee seated in Washington, D.C., mirrors the January decisionÃâà...
CNBC
April 24, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a type of in-house patent review at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office does not violate a defendant's right under the U.S. Constitution to have a case adjudicated by a federal court and jury. These reviews have been especially popular with companies like Apple andÃâà...
Life Sciences Intellectual Property Review
April 16, 2018
Vanda Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company based in Washington, DC, secured a win late last week when the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found a patent covering its schizophrenia drug to be patentable. On Friday, April 13, the Federal Circuit affirmed the US District Court for theÃâà...
Human Rights Campaign (blog)
April 14, 2018
A federal court in Seattle rejected the Trump Administration's claim that its “new” discriminatory plan to ban transgender people from serving openly in the ... In October, a U.S. District Court judge in Washington, D.C., granted a preliminary injunction in a similar lawsuit challenging the transgender militaryÃâà...
Human Rights Campaign (blog)
April 14, 2018
A federal court in Seattle rejected the Trump Administration's claim that its “new” discriminatory plan to ban transgender people from serving openly in the ... In October, a U.S. District Court judge in Washington, D.C., granted a preliminary injunction in a similar lawsuit challenging the transgender militaryÃâà...
EFF
April 13, 2018
Good news for anyone who uses the Internet as a source of information: A district court in Washington, D.C. has ruled that using automated tools to ... The CFAA makes it illegal to access a computer connected to the Internet “without authorization,” but the statute doesn't tells us what “authorization” orÃâà...
Lewiston Sun Journal
March 29, 2018
Gov. Paul LePage's stay at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., in early 2017 is playing a key role in a federal lawsuit against President Donald Trump by the state of Maryland and the District of Columbia. U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte issued an opinion Wednesday that the state andÃâà...
AOL
March 28, 2018
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, on Tuesday asked a federal judge in Virginia to ... WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 2: Ex Trump campaign official Paul Manafort, center, departs U.S. District Court with his attorney Kevin Downing, left,Ãâà...
CNN
March 28, 2018
Washington (CNN) A federal judge said Wednesday that a lawsuit alleging gifts or payments from foreign and domestic governments made to President ... But the ruling from Judge Peter Messitte of the US District Court of Maryland says the Maryland and District of Columbia attorneys general who broughtÃâà...
Windy City Times
March 26, 2018
Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the proposed ban on open military service by ... In October, a U.S. District Court judge in Washington, D.C., granted a preliminary injunction in a similar lawsuit challenging the transgender military service ban filedÃâà...
WTOP
March 26, 2018
WASHINGTON — A three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit will hear the latest arguments Monday in the lawsuit brought by the Archdiocese of Washington against Metro. The lawsuit was filed after Metro banned the archdiocese's ads from its buses at Christmastime.
Albuquerque Journal
March 23, 2018
... filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., Thursday challenging the Department of Homeland Security's request for a waiver of 25 laws. ... Judge Gonzalo Curiel found the federal government had wide discretion when it came to border security but declined to rule on claims that did notÃâà...
Lexology
March 23, 2018
U.S. Bank Nat'l Ass'n, 2018 WL 1095503 (D.C. Mar. 1, 2018). In the case, the borrower purchased a condominium in 2007 and financed it through a loan from the lender, which was secured by a mortgage on the property. In 2009, the borrower defaulted on both his loan and his condominium assessments.
Yahoo News
March 23, 2018
4, 2016 file photo, a U.S. Border Patrol agent drives near the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Santa Teresa, N.M. A coalition of environment groups is seeking to stop work ... The lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington, D.C. claims the U.S. Department of Homeland Security does not have authority to waiveÃâà...
Jackson Hole News&Guide
March 23, 2018
A federal government watchdog group is suing Grand Teton National Park for failing to release records suspected of revealing illegal predecisional ... The watchdog group's attorney, Adam Carlesco, filed a lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. The complaint asks a judge to declare anÃâà...
ThinkProgress
March 23, 2018
This suit, however, addressed Trump as President of the United States. By allowing the plaintiffs to amend their initial lawsuit to include Trump the businessman, the judge in charge of the case, U.S. District Court Judge Peter Messitte, appears to be inclined to let the case proceed. In a Maryland court inÃâà...
The Hill
March 22, 2018
Last year, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit from a liberal watchdog organization arguing that Trump was violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution. Judge George Daniels of the U.S. District Court for the District of New York dismissed the case on “lack of standing,” agreeing with Trump'sÃâà...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Newsroom
March 21, 2018
WASHINGTON – Two Canadian brothers have been indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia on charges alleging they operated an Internet-based unlicensed money ... The indictment was returned earlier this month and unsealed today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
wnep.com
March 20, 2018
“Because this was a case decided under the state constitution by the state supreme court, the usual path for review of this case by the US Supreme Court is limited,” wrote Richard L. Hasen, an elections law expert at the University of California, Irvine. Earlier Monday in a separate case, a three-judge panelÃâà...
CNN
March 9, 2018
... campaign aide Sam Nunberg arrived at District Court in Washington, DC, Friday morning, where he is expected to deliver federal grand jury testimony ... The US intelligence community determined in January 2017 that Russian intelligence provided the hacked emails to WikiLeaks, which Assange denies.
Law.com
December 31, 1999
Gupta took the case to the D.C. Circuit after being twice rebuffed in Washington federal district court by Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee who took the bench in September. The case is rooted in a string of events that played out in November following the resignation of Richard Cordray, the CFPB'sÃâà...
observer-me.com
December 31, 1999
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine and Angus King, I-Maine announced that Maine Superior Court Justice Lance Walker, a native of Piscataquis County, has been nominated by President Donald Trump to the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine. “During his nearly twoÃâà...
