Feds Want Warrantless Spying Loss Overturned, Saying Law Can’t Touch Them

ShareThis Feds Want Warrantless Spying Loss Overturned, Saying Law Can’t Touch Them 31 May 2012 The Obama administration is set to argue to a federal appeals court Friday that the government may breach, with impunity, domestic spying laws adopted in the wake of President Richard M. Nixon’s Watergate scandal. The case tests whether Americans may [...]

Court blocks release of CIA interrogation methods

ShareThis Court blocks release of CIA interrogation methods 21 May 2012 CIA secret interrogation methods – including detention and harsh questioning torture of suspected terrorists – remain off limits to public release, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The agency was sued eight years ago to provide details of certain communications describing the use of [...]

Court: Oklahoma can’t enforce Sharia law ban

Editor’s note: It is funny that a court would embrace Constitutional rights while ignoring them in other cases. It seems that Judges can just pick and choose at their when it is convenient for them or they agree/disagree with an issue. If this was really about rights, we would see consistency. A federal appeals court [...]

Appeals court OKs law giving telecom companies immunity for government’s surveillance program

ShareThis Appeals court OKs law giving telecom companies immunity for government’s surveillance program 29 Dec 2011 A federal appeals court on Thursday said a 2008 law that granted telecommunications companies legal immunity for helping the National Security Agency with an email and telephone eavesdropping program is constitutional. A unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. [...]

High court to hear suit over Cheney event arrest

The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear an appeal from Secret Service agents who say they should be shielded from a lawsuit over their arrest of a Colorado man who confronted Vice President Dick Cheney. The justices will review a federal appeals court decision to allow Steven Howards of Golden, Colo., to pursue his [...]

Sentence For Terrorist Is Too Short, Court Rules

ShareThis Sentence For Terrorist Is Too Short, Court Rules 19 Sep 2011 A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that the 17-year prison sentence imposed on Jose Padilla, who was convicted of terrorism conspiracy in 2007, was too lenient and sent the case back to the district court here for a new hearing. In a [...]

Appeals court strikes down health overhaul requirement that most Americans must buy insurance

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By Associated Press ATLANTA — A federal appeals court panel on Friday struck down the requirement in President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul package that virtually all Americans must carry health insurance or face penalties. The divided three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the so-called individual mandate, which is considered [...]

Appeals Court Revives Lawsuit Challenging NSA Surveillance of Americans

It’s easy to forget these days, but former President George W. Bush’s illegal warrantless surveillance program was never halted by Congress, nor by the Obama administration. It was merely legalized in a 2008 law called the FISA Amendments Act. That means the surveillance of Americans’ international phone calls and internet use — complete with secret [...]