District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals News

Detainees should not be tried in the U.S. - a judge might order them released here.

The telephony issue that won't go away -- special access fees -- is slated to be examined by the Federal Communications Commission, according to an FCC notice.

The National Industrial Transportation League reported that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will review driver hours of service rules and issue a new notice of proposed rulemaking within nine months.

The FCC's BitTorrent order "shackles" Internet service providers in their attemps to thwart online piracy, leaves network operators guessing about what reasonable network management is, undercuts the agency's own network neutrality proposal and should be vacated by the courts.

AOPA on Oct. 29 requested permission from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to participate as a friend of the court in an appeal by the city of Santa Monica, Calif., of an FAA decision that the city could not ban certain jet traffic at Santa Monica Airport.

With the release of the Federal Communications Commission's new Internet nondiscrimination proposals , one vexing question continues to vex.

Given that the FCC based its decision on its Internet Policy Principles , which are not officially commission rules, the commission's decision is unlawful and the court needs to throw out the decision, Comcast argued.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has set Jan. 8 as the date for oral argument in Comcast's appeal of the FCC's network management decision in the BitTorrent case.The FCC found back in summer 2008 that Comcast violated its Internet open-access guidelines by blocking BitTorrent peer-to-peer traffic .Comcast took the FCC to court over ...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced two subpoena enforcement actions challenging tactics that delay agency investigations.

You might expect a man who graduated from Harvard Law School with honors, and was later a law clerk in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals under Robert Bork , Ruth Ginsburg , and Antonin Scalia to know his stuff concerning the Constitution.

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether federal judges have the power to order Guantanamo detainees to be released into the United States when they are no longer considered a threat.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning granted review in the first Guantanamo detainee case to face the Obama Administration at the high court level.

David Safavian, the former head of federal procurement policy during the Bush administration, was sentenced on Friday to 12 months and one day in prison for lying about his dealings with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

On October 15, the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, heard oral arguments in Unity08 v Federal Election Commission, no.

Former General Services Administration Chief of Staff David H. Safavian was sentenced today to one year in prison on charges of obstruction of justice and making false statements in connection with the investigation into the activities of former Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the Department of Justice announced.

Posted by David Hardy 13 October 2009 08:51 PM Video here . He wrote the DC Circuit opinion in Parker/Heller, which the Supreme Court affirmed.

A series of court decisions expected this fall could put the nation on track to return to turn-of-the-century campaign finance laws.

Five minutes late for his interview, Viet Dinh pulled his black Mercedes V-12 S600 sedan into a tight space in front of his favorite Dupont Circle lunch spot, Raku, ignoring the No Parking sign above his car.

A Latham & Watkins associate last week was back in court fighting to salvage a suit alleging the government unlawfully wiretapped and watched a man after he made a passing remark about airline security on the telephone.

President Obama selected one of the most knowledgeable and even-handed government acquisition professionals to run the administration's procurement policy shop, contracting observers said on Monday.