Read more habeas corpus stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/7299/habeas-corpus.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 6:10:53 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/55142/afghan-detainees-have-right-to-us-courts-judge.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA federal judge overruled both the Bush and the Obama administrations today, declaring that prisoners held at a military base in Afghanistan can challenge their detention in US civilian courts, the New York Times reports. The prisoners deserve the same right that the Supreme Court granted to Gitmo detainees last...http://www.newser.com/story/55142/afghan-detainees-have-right-to-us-courts-judge.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 02 Apr 2009 16:41:07 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/48288/2-dozen-gitmo-prisoners-win-court-cases.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAt least 24 detainees at Guantanamo Bay have won cases in federal court or military tribunals voiding their detention in the last 3 months. While the Bush administration has insisted that the prisoners who remain at Gitmo are "the worst of the worst," there was apparently no legal reason to...http://www.newser.com/story/48288/2-dozen-gitmo-prisoners-win-court-cases.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 19 Jan 2009 4:26:32 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44531/in-court-philip-morris-uses-civil-rights-smokescreen.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPhilip Morris has cast itself as a civil-rights victim being denied due process, Stephanie Mencimer writes for Mother Jones . The tobacco giant, ordered by an Oregon jury in 1999 to pay $79 million in punitive damages to a woman whose husband died of lung cancer, has been fighting the award...http://www.newser.com/story/44531/in-court-philip-morris-uses-civil-rights-smokescreen.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 05 Dec 2008 15:17:10 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43234/5-ordered-freed-from-gitmo-on-feds-lack-of-evidence.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA federal judge today ordered the release of five Guantánamo Bay inmates, ruling that the US government’s evidence was not enough to justify their continued detention, the New York Times reports. The men were among the inmates who won a Supreme Court verdict in June that found they indeed had...http://www.newser.com/story/43234/5-ordered-freed-from-gitmo-on-feds-lack-of-evidence.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 20 Nov 2008 13:50:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42836/to-close-guantanamo-us-must-go-through-yemen.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAs the new administration decides how to make good on its promise to close Guantánamo Bay, the little nation of Yemen is proving to be big trouble. US officials began sending detainees to be held in their home countries in 2005, but have kept all 100-odd Yemenis over fears that...http://www.newser.com/story/42836/to-close-guantanamo-us-must-go-through-yemen.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 16 Nov 2008 15:00:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42381/assaults-on-our-freedom-come-from-left-and-right.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThose who blame the current administration for assaults on US constitutional freedoms should take a longer view, writes Alexander Cockburn in the American Conservative . “No doubt the conservatives who cheered Bush on as he abrogated ancient rights and stretched the powers of his office to unseen limits would have shrieked...http://www.newser.com/story/42381/assaults-on-our-freedom-come-from-left-and-right.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 13 Nov 2008 13:07:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42011/gitmo-detainees-begin-court-challenge.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA federal judge opened the first habeas corpus hearing for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay yesterday, five months after the Supreme Court ruled that they may challenge their detention in court. The judge closed the court after opening statements were made, saying that the evidence was classified, the New York Times...http://www.newser.com/story/42011/gitmo-detainees-begin-court-challenge.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 07 Nov 2008 8:15:48 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/33275/mukasey-cant-reach-dems-across-gulf-on-terror-law.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe refusal by Democrats to give Michael Mukasey a hearing during a Hill appearance yesterday is evidence of a “huge and poisonous gulf” between the legislative and executive branches that threatens to delay action on judicial process until 2009, Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball write in Newsweek . The attorney general...http://www.newser.com/story/33275/mukasey-cant-reach-dems-across-gulf-on-terror-law.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 24 Jul 2008 16:34:19 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/31566/bush-could-decide-by-weekend-to-close-gitmo.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Bush could decide by Saturday to close Guantanamo Bay as a prison for high-value detainees, insiders tell ABC. There is “generally wide agreement” among Bush's top advisers—Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates among them—that Gitmo should eventually be shuttered, but the landmark recent Supreme Court decision undermines the...http://www.newser.com/story/31566/bush-could-decide-by-weekend-to-close-gitmo.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 03 Jul 2008 15:55:01 CDT