The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, long considered the most reliably conservative of the federal appellate courts, is beginning to look more like the U.S. Supreme Court, at least on terrorism issues.
Nine judges who participated in the case of Ali al-Marri, the American resident and Qatari citizen who has been designated an enemy combatant, […]
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Not as conservative as it used to be
July 16th, 2008 · No Comments · 4th Circuit, Terrorism
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Times wins libel case
July 15th, 2008 · No Comments · 4th Circuit, Defamation, Terrorism
Self-promotion, especially on a matter of public interest, makes it very tough to win a libel case. That’s the clear, if hardly new, message from the 4th Circuit in Hatfill v. The New York Times Co.
The suit was based on a series of five columns in 2002 by Times writer Nicholas Kristof taking the FBI […]
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Character counts, according to sentencing court
August 8th, 2007 · No Comments · 4th Circuit, Sentencing, Terrorism
A criminal defendant whose character and connections generated more fan mail than an Alexandria federal judge has seen in 25 years won a reduction of his guidelines sentence for obstruction of justice and lying to a grand jury and to an FBI agent about his activities in Pakistan and alleged contacts with a jihad training […]
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