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In the case of Yaser Hamdi, the court renounced the Administration's claim that military authorities could indefinitely hold a U.S. citizen as an "enemy combatant" without ever providing him with an opportunity to contest the basis for his detention before a neutral decision maker.
And in a case brought by fourteen foreign nationals, the court cast aside the government's argument that because the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay is nominally under Cuban sovereignty, American courts lack jurisdiction to entertain legal claims brought by persons who had no say in where the U.S. military chose to detain them.
Clearly, the court thought that such trust had not been earned.
For example, in a 2002 Virginia case, the high court ruled that the execution of the mentally retarded is forbidden by the American Constitution as "cruel and unusual punishment."
These Justices regularly travel to colloquia on comparative constitutional law and see themselves as part of an international community of high court judges.
Of course, neoconservative critics of the high court will see in this explanation the confirmation of their worst fears.
Yet the high court has considered foreign policy implications before.
By holding that American apartheid violated the constitutional command of "equal protection of the laws," the court struck a blow for justice at home and American strategic interests abroad.
A decorated World War II veteran, Justice Stevens may well have thought that he was at least as qualified as the civilians in the Bush Justice Department to forecast the impact of the court's ruling on military efficiency.
The court, for example, required Musharraf to present alleged terror suspects – some of whome were likely “rendered” to Pakistan by the CIA – detained for years without government acknowledgment.
The US is already blocking the appointment of judges to a key WTO appeals court.
The key to success will be to strengthen the infrastructure of property-rights protection, including dispute-resolution mechanisms, the court system, and commercial and technological standards.
Trump’s executive order to ban people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US has been rejected three times in court, and the White House now says that it will not appeal the case to the Supreme Court.
Charles Taylor, a former president of Liberia currently facing war crimes charges at a special court in The Hague, is alleged to have used diamonds to fund rebels in Sierra Leone’s civil war.
As the editor-in-chief of Tempo Weekly Newsmagazine , I am guilty, according to the court, of defaming a business tycoon named Tomy Winata by implying his possible involvement in a fire at Jakarta's South-East Asia textile market, and of fomenting riots by disseminating lies.
The yearlong court proceedings were marked by a series of suspicious developments, all favoring Winata.
But the court rejected our request that proceedings be delayed until the legality of the state's case could be clarified.
Then, in the sixth month of the case, the Head Judge in the three-judge panel was suddenly promoted to become the head of a city court an hour from Jakarta.
One of my lawyers noted that in his 35 years experience at the court, he had never seen a Head Judge replaced in an ongoing case.
A recording of the telephone interview was played in court; sworn testimony was heard from the reporter who conducted the interview and from two editors who witnessed it; the official record from the telephone company was submitted as evidence of the call; and an expert witness concluded that the voice on the recording belonged to Tomy Winata.
The judges then denied our request for a postponement of the court decision until Mr. Winata's perjury case was resolved.
The more hotly debated program is one in which the NSA maps the origin and destination of US citizens’ telephone traffic and stores it for possible later inspection (presumably with a court order).
Opponents argue that the court created in 1978 under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was designed for an era before the advent of big data, and that current practice stretches the provisions of the Patriot Act, passed after the September 11 attacks.
The issue is bound to arise again, with several pending bills proposing revisions of the FISA court.
Victor Li Tzar-kuoi, the son of Hong Kong’s most powerful property baron, Li Ka-shing, astonished the public recently, saying in court testimony that it was a “painful experience” to deal with the government’s imperious Urban Renewal Authority.
To have any chance of re-opening on Monday morning, a bankrupt bank’s billions of dollars in long-term debt would already have to be structured in such a way that a bankruptcy court could eliminate it over a weekend.
Furthermore, corporations and privacy advocates should be encouraged to use the court system to challenge government requests to install spy software in commercial products.
Too Much InformationCANBERRA – As a British court weighs whether Julian Assange should be extradited to Sweden, and American prosecutors weigh the criminal charges they will file against Private Bradley Manning, the alleged major source for the disclosures by Assange’s WikiLeaks, global debate continues on whether such revelations do more good than harm.
Long before the civil war in former Yugoslavia, I concluded that the world needed an international court to try governments and army commanders for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
America will never accept the jurisdiction of an independent international court over its political leaders and military forces.
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