North Dakota State's Attorney Ladd Erickson has dropped criminal trespassing charges against Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman -- and is instead seeking to charge her with participating in a riot,...
At the time, the charges against Goodman were apparently for trespassing, but late on Friday, the state attorney alerted Goodman's lawyer that they were now actually trying to charge her with rioting...
Human rights attorneys filed a lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security on Thursday for failing to release documents on the agencies’ surveillance of...
A federal appeals court on Friday reinstated a lawsuit filed by four former inmates of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, who say they were tortured by civilian military contractors. The lawsuit, which has...
A federal court of appels on Friday reinstated a case brought by four Iraqis who allege they were tortured by employees of CACI while they were held at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison during the Iraq...
In a robust ruling in favor of Abu Ghraib detainees, an appellate court ruled Friday that torture is such a clear violation of the law that it is “beyond the power of even the president to declare...
In a major rebuke to post-9/11 Bush-era legal arguments regarding torture, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled Friday that “even the president” doesn’t have the legal capability to...
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a lawsuit brought by four inmates of Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison against civilian military military contractors, alleging they were tortured...
Two groups seeking records from federal authorities over their monitoring protesters of police-involved shootings are suing the FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, saying both agencies...
Back in July, racial equity advocacy group Color of Change partnered with the Center for Constitutional Rights to file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for information related to the...
