As many yesterday and today commemorated the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, a reported credible threat of a plan to set off a bomb in New…
Sep 13, 2011 1:48 AM CDT
April Gallop is leaving no stone unturned in her effort to recover money after surviving the Sept. 11 attacks on the Pentagon.
Gallop has filed suit against Dick Cheney alleging…
Sep 12, 2011 1:27 PM CDT
Updated: A bomb exploded at an appeals court in India today, killing eleven people and wounding 59 others.
The bomb was hidden in a brief case at an entrance to…
Sep 7, 2011 11:29 AM CDT
Lawyers representing two companies linked to the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program are surprised the agency never objected to contract litigation that played out in an upstate New York courtroom.
The…
Sep 1, 2011 12:10 PM CDT
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Cantor Fitzgerald tax lawyer Harry Waizer was in an elevator in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 when terrorists flew a plane into his building.
Waizer tells the Aug 15, 2011 4:55 PM CDT
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Aug 8, 2011 7:00 PM CDT
If there is significant opposition to the U.S. war on terror, it wasn’t apparent in a roomful of lawyers on Friday.
Salli Swartz, chair of the ABA Section of International…
Aug 5, 2011 7:39 PM CDT
A federal judge this week allowed the case of an Army veteran who claims he was imprisoned and tortured by U.S. military in Iraq to move forward against former Defense…
Aug 4, 2011 11:10 AM CDT
A Manhattan federal judge won’t hold the Central Intelligence Agency in contempt for destroying videotapes chronicling harsh interrogations of two al-Qaida detainees.
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ordered the CIA…
Aug 3, 2011 3:05 PM CDT
A tip from a suspicious former policeman who worked part time at a Texas gun store led authorities to an AWOL soldier believed to be planning a new attack on…
Jul 29, 2011 11:38 AM CDT