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• Pershing Park Case: Peter Nickles Continues To Fight Discovery

  
  City Desk — Authority: 718
  In a recent hearing in the Pershing Park case, Judge Emmet Sullivan warned D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles that he " was playing games with the wrong judge ." In a filing last week [ PDF ], plaintiffs lawyers suggest Nickles is not taking Sullivans threat seriously.  Lawyers in the Chang case assert that ...
  9 hours ago

• Pershing Park Case: Bring On The Forensic Examiner

  
  City Desk — Authority: 718
  In this mornings hearing in U.S. District Court, Judge Emmet Sullivan edged ever closer to referring the Pershing Park case to the Department of Justice---signaling hes close to handing the matter over to Attorney General Eric Holder . But first, Sullivan wants to order up one more investigative tool at his ...
  6 days ago

• Remaining Pershing Park Plaintiffs Amp Up Legal Case

  
  City Desk — Authority: 718
  For D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles , Pershing Park isnt over. Though the citys top lawyer had just settled a big lawsuit with 400 plaintiffs over the mass arrests that took place on Sept. 27, 2002, there is another, more stubborn suit sitting out there. Attorneys in the Chang case represent just four ...
  1 week ago

• Introducing TWI’s Gitmo Habeas Scoreboard

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 736
  Since the Supreme Court ruled last year that detainees at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo have the right to habeas corpus — that is, the right to challenge their detention in court — hundreds of detainees have taken advantage, filing petitions in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. Today, The ...
  1 week ago

• Pershing Park Plaintiffs Speak Out On Settlement

  
  City Desk — Authority: 718
  On September 27, 2002, D.C. Police surrounded some 400 individuals in Pershing Park . Those individuals were rounded up without warning, arrested, and transferred to the police academy where they were hogtied for hours [See our Boss Hogtie cover story on the incident]. Sally Norton , a nurse in town for a ...
  1 week ago

• Court, Congress deal blows to Bachmanns ACORN agenda

  
  City Pages - The Blotter — Authority: 659
  A vote in the House and a decision by a U.S. District Court judge in Brooklyn suggest shes lost a couple of rounds.
  1 week ago

• Texas woman sentenced for possession of cocaine at McGuire Air Force Base

  
  myBCTnow.com — Authority: 150
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  1 week ago

• SEC wants judge to jail alleged Ponzi schemer Trevor Cook

  
  City Pages - The Blotter — Authority: 659
  For Trevor Cook, accused with a syndicated radio talk show host of running a $190-million Ponzi scheme from the Van Dusen Mansion, the law appears to be tightening its grip.
  1 week ago

• Apple Countersues Nokia for Copying iPhone (Plus Disputed Patents and Full Text of Counterclaim)

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 702
  On Oct. 22, Nokia filed suit against Apple , accusing the company of hitching a “free-ride” on its intellectual property. This morning, Apple filed a searing countersuit accusing Nokia of the same thing. In counterclaims filed in the U.S. District Court of Delaware, Apple (AAPL) denies infringement and asserts ...
  1 week ago

• Shawne Merriman Countersuing Tila Tequila

  
  MoonDog Sports — Authority: 557
  Tila Tequilas ex-boyfriend, Shawne Merriman, is countersuing the reality TV star, accusing her of spreading lies about domestic abuse.
  1 week ago

• Cathy Lanier: Hogtying Detainees Prevented Mass Fornication

  
  City Desk — Authority: 718
  After D.C. police mass-arrested about 400 people at Pershing Park on Sept. 27, 2002, they hog-tied their quarries, cuffing their right wrists to their left ankles. The restraint left the arrestees in painful, circulation-stopping positions. Surely there was a good reason to treat these peaceful protesters and ...
  1 week ago

• Gitmo Detainee Is Returned to Kuwait

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  The United States today released Fouad Mahmoud Al Rabiah to his native Kuwait after holding him for nearly eight years at Guantanamo Bay. According to the Department of Justice , Al Rabiah had been cleared for transfer by the government’s Guantanamo Review Task Force. On Sept. 17, a federal court also ruled he ...
  2 weeks ago

• Police Union Chief Calls For DOJ To Investigate Pershing Park

  
  City Desk — Authority: 718
  D.C. Police Union Chief Kristopher Baumann has reviewed Ret. Judge Stanley Sporkin s report on the missing and/or destroyed evidence in the Pershing Park case. Baumann says he has concluded that there can be only one next step: The case should be referred to the Department of Justice. “There needs to be an ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pershing Park Case: Sporkin Report Reviewed In Detail

  
  City Desk — Authority: 718
  Late last Friday, Ret. Federal Judge Stanley Sporkin s investigative report [ PDF ] on Pershing Park was made public. The long-awaited document totaled 18 pages and included findings based on interviews with 14 individuals. Legal Times declared the reports conclusions as " fairly modest ." The report found  no ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pershing Park Case: Sporkin Report Released

  
  City Desk — Authority: 718
  Ret. Judge Stanley Sporkin s investigative into the missing and/or botched evidence in the Pershing Park case has been released. The 18-page report is not a whitewash as we  had speculated it would be (mea culpa, Judge Sporkin). While the judge failed to name names and definitively conclude what exactly happened ...
  2 weeks ago

• D.C. Moves to Retake Control of School Buses by July

  
  City Desk — Authority: 718
  The District today petitioned a federal judge to return control of the citys public school transportation system to local authorities. According to todays filing, a "first class school transportation system" has been established under court administrator David Gilmore and "it is now time to return control of this ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ex-Club Owner Found Guilty Of Tax Evasion

  
  City Desk — Authority: 718
  Today, Abdul Karim Khanu was found guilty in federal court of tax evasion. Khanu, 42, had been a prominent nightclub owner. At one point, he operated DC Live, Platinum, and H2O. Now, he is facing a maximum of 10 year prison term. According to a press release from the U.S. Attorneys Office: "Khanu owned and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Court Monitor: CFSA’s Foster Care Still Fails

  
  City Desk — Authority: 718
  AG Peter Nickles push to have the citys child welfare system removed from federal court oversight has hit a road block. In a very non-shocking report [ PDF ] released today, the Center for the Study of Social Policy ( CSSP ) has found huge gaps in CFSAs foster-care system. CSSP is the court-appointed monitor. Its ...
  3 weeks ago

• Introducing A Guide To The Pershing Park Case

  
  City Desk — Authority: 718
  Are you hazy on the events of Sept. 27, 2002 when D.C. police arrested 400 people in Pershing Park ? Do you want to read about what it was like to be hogtied for hours? Are you unsure what exactly a running resume is? Would you like to know just how the District lost or destroyed crucial evidence? Would you like to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cheh: Pershing Park Case Should Be Sent To Feds

  
  City Desk — Authority: 718
  In a few days, retired judge Stanley Sporkin will issue his report on the discovery abuses in the Pershing Park cases. It seems unlikely that he will find out just who destroyed the running resume and erased key portions of the radio communications on Sept. 27, 2002. So how will authorities get to the bottom of ...
  4 weeks ago

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