Department of Justice Announces It Will Not Prosecute Nearly 100 Incidents Allegedly Involving Torture

var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-2327420-4']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();In 2009, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder directed special prosecutor John Durham to investigate...

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Two Nominated to District Courts

var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-2327420-4']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();President Obama has nominated Judge David Ogden Nuffer to the United States District Court for the...

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Senate Judiciary Committee Hears Testimony on Supreme Court’s Corporate Slant

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Senate Passes Bill to Streamline Confirmation of Executive Branch Nominees

var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-2327420-4']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();This morning, by a vote of 79-20, the Senate passed S. 679, the Presidential Appointment Efficiency...

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Conservative Bush Appointee Upholds Affordable Care Act

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Supreme Court to Hear Case on Telephone Harassment by Businesses

var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-2327420-4']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();This week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Mims v. Arrow Financial Services. Arrow Financial Services...

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Senate Confirms Three DOJ Nominees

var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-2327420-4']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();Today the Senate confirmed three top Justice Department attorneys after a lengthy delay. James Cole,...

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Wealthy Special Interest Groups Can More Easily Influence State Elections

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Corporate Court Allows Foreign Companies to Aim for Big Profits in U.S. With Less Accountability

var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-2327420-4']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();In a four-member plurality decision issued today, the Supreme Court limited the ability of individuals...

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Foreign Corporations Score Big Win in Corporate Court

var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-2327420-4']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();In a unanimous decision issued today, the Supreme Court limited the ability of individuals harmed...

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Supreme Court Protects First Amendment Rights of Minors, Refuses to Carve Out New Exception to Free Speech

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Ensuring Women Have Equal Rights Under the Law

var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-2327420-4']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();In response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes, Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and...

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Pharmaceutical Companies Permitted to Sell Physicians’ Private Information

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A Victory for Railroad Workers

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Corporate Court Protects Drug Manufacturers That Fail to Warn Consumers of Health Risks

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Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing and Executive Business Meeting

Today the Senate Judiciary Committee held over votes on the nominations of Stephen A. Higginson, nominee to be United States Circuit Court for the Fifth Circuit; Jane M. Triche-Milazzo, nominee to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Alison J. Nathan and Katherine B. Forrest, nominees to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York; and Susan O. Hickey, nominee to the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, until the committee’s next business meeting. The committee did not vote on the nomination of Steve...

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Senate Confirms Michael Simon to the District of Oregon

The Senate has just confirmed Michael Simon to serve on the United States District Court for the District of Oregon by a vote of 64-35, with eleven Republicans joining all of the Democrats. Judge Simon fills one of the 112 vacancies in the federal courts, and a seat that’s also considered to be a “judicial emergency” by the Administrative Office of the Courts. Judge Simon was initially nominated on July 14, 2010, and he’s twice been reported out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on lopsided votes, but Republicans have nonetheless unnecessarily delayed his confirmation for almost a yea...

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The Corporate Court: Your Rights v. Corporate Interests -- Now Available Online

var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-2327420-4']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();On Saturday, June 18, Alliance for Justice hosted a panel discussion at the annual Netroots Nation...

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Judicial Vacancy Crisis Covered on MSNBC

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Supreme Court’s Sharply Divided Wal-Mart Decision Limits Women’s Power to Fight Discrimination

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Supreme Court Prevents Emissions Suits Under Federal Common Law But Not Clean Air Act

Today the Supreme Court handed down its decision on American Electric Power Co., Inc. v. Connecticut. At stake was the right of states and individuals to stop corporate polluters from emitting harmful greenhouse gases.The Court decided 8-0 in favor of AEP, with Justice Sotomayor recusing herself from the case.This case was brought by eight states, plus the City of New York and three private land trusts against the nation’s five largest carbon dioxide polluters under the federal common law of nuisance, seeking to force them to cap and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The Second Circuit...

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Corporate Court Devises New Hurdles For Formation Of Classes

PRESS RELEASEFor Immediate Release ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE CONDEMNS CORPORATE MAJORITY ON THE SUPREME COURT FOR DEVISING NEW HURDLES TO JUSTICE FOR WOMEN IN WAL-MART CASEWashington, D.C., June 20, 2011—Alliance for Justice President Nan Aron issued the following statement on today’s decision by the United States Supreme Court in Wal-Mart v. Dukes:The decision today by a narrow majority of the United States Supreme Court to prevent the female employees of Wal-Mart Stores from banding together to form a class action to fight gender discrimination is just the latest example of the conservative majority’s...

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Senate Judiciary Committee Reports Out 3 Nominees, Holds Over 1 Nominee, and Schedules Hearings for 5 Nominees

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