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...Guantánamo Bay, the White House has insisted that they fall beyond the jurisdiction of U.S. courts because the President has exclusive power to wage war and deny "combatants" the rights of ordinary citizens. The Supreme Court rejected that argument, although last Tuesday the Washington court of appeals upheld a law eliminating the right of foreign detainees at Guantánamo Bay to file for habeas corpus...
...Tuesday a U.S. appeals court upheld a law that strips federal courts of jurisdiction over foreign prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. Among those detainees are European terrorist suspects, who will continue to be denied due process. This will not sit well in Europe...
...federal appeals court in Washington Tuesday upheld a key provision of a controversial anti-terrorism law signed by President Bush last year that removed the rights of Guantanamo prisoners to challenge their detention before U.S. courts. Known as the Military Commissions Act, the law permits the U.S. to indefinitely detain foreigners designated as "enemy combatants" and also allows the use aggressive but unspecified interrogation techniques...
Employees of some private companies have not fared as well in court. In Iowa this fall, a federal appellate court upheld the right of the Burlington Northern Railroad to test workers involved in accidents as well as those returning from furlough. More important, the Supreme Court last week refused to hear the appeal of five jockeys that random tests for drug and alcohol abuse violated their rights. A lower court had upheld the testing on the ground that jockeys are voluntary participants in an industry that must curry the confidence of bettors by assuring drug-free races. The Reagan Administration...
...will you make up for your lack of political experience? In Djindjic's government, I learned fast. We inherited Serbia from Slobodan Milosevic as a destitute, ruined, isolated country. We sent Milosevic to the Hague, negotiated through dozens of strikes, clamped down on corruption and smuggling, and then upheld economic stability when gangsters killed Djindjic. I am battle hardened...