MiamiHerald.com: In the Courts http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/index.html MiamiHerald.com: In the Courts http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com In the Courts 60 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:42:48 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com Holder, Gates oppose restrictions on Gitmo trials http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1313758.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1313758.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:09 EST The defense secretary and attorney general are opposing an attempt to prohibit Guantánamo detainees from having civilian trials in the United States. Obama revives military trials at Guantánamo http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1305387.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1305387.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:57 EDT President Barack Obama brought back Bush-era military trials for terror suspects at Guantánamo Bay on Wednesday by signing new rules into law that will give detainees stronger legal rights in court. Supreme Court agrees to consider Guantánamo Uighurs case http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1292295.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1292295.html Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:54 EDT The Supreme Court's decision Tuesday to weigh whether a federal judge has the power to release Guantánamo Bay prisoners into the United States continues a legal tug of war begun when the Bush administration opened the overseas detention camp. Lindsey Graham seeks to block 9/11 trials in U.S. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1275325.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1275325.html Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:57 EDT South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Friday that he'd attached an amendment to an appropriations bill that would prohibit the Obama administration from spending money on the prosecution and trial of the accused terrorists before U.S. civilian federal judges. Judge: Free Kuwaiti engineer at Guantánamo http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1239065.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1239065.html Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:38 EDT A federal judge late Thursday ordered the Obama administration to set free a 50-year-old Kuwaiti aeronautics engineer who had been held as a war crimes suspect at Guantánamo since 2002. While defending war court, White House seeks delay http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1236901.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1236901.html Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:43 EDT The Obama administration Wednesday broadly defended as constitutional its predecessor's format for military commissions at Guantánamo but said it would seek to delay next week's sanity hearings in a Sept. 11 case while it revamps its war on terror prosecution strategy. Appeals court to hear 9/11 accused's emergency plea http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1229426.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1229426.html Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:27 EDT A federal appeals court late Friday agreed to consider an alleged 9/11 plotter's plea to halt his sanity hearing slated for Sept. 21-25 at the war court at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Guantánamo captives winning lawsuits 29-7 http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1221242.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1221242.html Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:41 EDT In one federal courtroom last month, a defense lawyer argued that the U.S. military had coerced a false confession out of a 50-year-old Kuwaiti who has been at Guantánamo for seven years. Bin Laden aide's Guantánamo conviction appealed http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1214739.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1214739.html Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:33 EDT Pentagon defense lawyers this week appealed the war crimes conviction of Osama bin Laden's media secretary at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on free speech grounds. Judge rules Kuwaiti at Guantánamo was foot soldier http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1212415.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1212415.html Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:28 EDT A federal judge has upheld the military detention of a Kuwaiti man whose lawyers were among the earliest and most persistent challengers of President George W. Bush's right to lock him up as an enemy combatant at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Judge: CIA interrogations not relevant to 9/11 accused's sanity http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1179756.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1179756.html Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:53 EDT U.S. military defense lawyers for accused 9/11 conspirator Ramzi bin al Shibh cannot learn what interrogation techniques CIA agents used on the Yemeni before he was moved to Guantánamo to be tried as a terrorist, an Army judge has ruled. UK judges: Intelligence officer visited Morocco http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1166387.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1166387.html Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:22 EDT A British intelligence officer repeatedly visited Morocco at the same time that a former U.K. resident was allegedly being tortured there, two senior judges said Friday. Judge orders young Guantánamo detainee's release http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1164103.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1164103.html Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:29 EDT A judge ruled Thursday that one of the youngest detainees brought to Guantánamo Bay is being held illegally and must be released.<p/> U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle's order does not end the case of Mohammed Jawad, however. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ian Gershengorn told the judge that as the United States negotiates with the detainee's home country of Afghanistan for his return next month, the Justice Department also is pursuing a criminal investigation. Guantánamo war court faces technological, legal challenges http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1142817.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1142817.html Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:26 EDT The Pentagon plunged forward Wednesday with pretrial hearings against eight detainees in its beleaguered war court system with challenges to both the ongoing terror prosecutions and their remote state-of-the-art technology. Ex-Guantánamo detainee seeks 'black sites' access http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1124201.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1124201.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:38 EDT Lawyers for a Guantánamo detainee charged with terrorism crimes have asked the U.S. government to preserve overseas locations where he was subjected to ''physical and psychological ill-treatment'' at secret CIA prisons known as ''black sites'' until they can inspect them. Uighurs ask Supreme Court to free them from Guantánamo http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1083010.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1083010.html Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:00 EDT Attorneys for 17 Muslims from China locked up inside a prison camp at Guantánamo asked the U.S. Supreme Court Friday to take on the case of the men whom a judge ordered set free eight months ago. Obama still deciding how to prosecute 9/11 accused http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1064986.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1064986.html Tue, 26 May 2009 07:04 EDT President Barack Obama is still deciding whether to go to federal court with the death penalty cases against five men accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a Defense Department official has notified the thousands of victim family members. Army judge postpones Guantánamo hearing http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1056293.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1056293.html Tue, 19 May 2009 22:58 EDT The chief judge for the Pentagon's Military Commissions has bowed to a White House request and postponed until late September a war court hearing at Guantánamo Bay for a Saudi man accused of aiding al Qaeda, according to a document obtained by The Miami Herald. Judge won't delay May 27 military commission session http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1042070.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1042070.html Sun, 10 May 2009 23:10 EDT The chief of the Pentagon war court has spurned a defense request for delay and ordered a Military Commission hearing that will address the issue of torture to go forward after Memorial Day at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Lawsuit: Detainee was tortured by U.S. in late '01 http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1014803.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1014803.html Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:36 EDT A Tunisian man detained after the Sept. 11 attacks was tortured at CIA-operated secret prisons in Afghanistan months before a Justice Department memo sanctioned the practices, a lawsuit filed Thursday alleges.