Earlier this month the German Federal Court of Justice ruled the New York Times could be sued in Germany for defamation arising from the online version of an article that appeared in the newspaper.
The split between the president and his No. 2 deepened when Bush refused to pardon Libby, Cheney's chief of staff, after a federal court convicted him of perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to investigators in the probe of the leak of the name of a CIA operative.
But in a sharply worded editorial Sunday, The New York Times called for the impeachment of Jay Bybee, a federal appeals court judge who was a Justice Department official when he wrote one of the memos that authorized those techniques.
The fate of the federal health care law currently before the Supreme Court is likely in the hands of Justice Anthony Kennedy, who has already cast the swing vote in a number of contentious cases over the past decade.
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In the third quarter of 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a complaint in the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia to block the acquisition.
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When Rep. Cravaak pointed out that the Department of Justice has demonstrated in federal court that such ties do exist, Sheriff Baca demurred and simply said, if there is that evidence, then such individuals, such organizations ought to be prosecuted.
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In late August, the attorney general successfully got the chief justice of an even higher court to overrule federal judges who on the merits of the case against Belo Monte and the environmental impact of river diversion had agreed that the local tribes had the right to a hearing with Congress.
In March of 2012, three independent tax preparers represented by the Institute for Justice (IJ) filed a complaint in federal court, challenging the authority of the IRS to regulate tax preparers.
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As a member of the Criminal Justice Act panel, Hostin also represented criminal defendants in federal district court in New York.
In that kind of case, Justice Kennedy said they're rare, but that a federal court should reopen an old death row case and sort of rehear the evidence.
Earlier this month, a US Federal Court in Virginia ordered Twitter to grant the Justice Department access to private data from the accounts of three suspected Wikileaks supporters, ruling that they had a "lessened expectation" of privacy after signing up to the micro blogging site.
An Obama administration official said national security officials including those at the Defense Department, the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department and the Department of Justice unanimously agreed that Mr. Abu Ghaith should be prosecuted in federal court.
He had obstructed the administration of justice before the United States district court in a civil rights case and before the federal grand jury.
The US Department of Justice has taken the position that the Federal Wire Act prohibits all forms of online gambling (despite court rulings to the contrary) and has obsessively worked to indict, arrest, and impede both online gaming sites and US players.
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