case first brought by wayne hajj sr. almost 17 years earlier. the family prevailed. they awarded the hage s estate 4 million plus another 10 million in interest and attorney s fees. the trespass case already a year in litigation would take almost 5 more to sort out. they won another victory. chief robert jones of u.s. district court in nevada filed this 104 page ruling order the government to renew their permit. they also found the government pressured the business associates not to do business with them and officials consp e conspireded to deprive them in their best of water rights. some of the things that were done by agents of the bureau of land management and u.s. forest service shocked the conscience of the court. they said that several times. it shocked the conscience of the
decisions of the fiza court. this idea that we should have a secret court enacting secret law that determines the contours of the constitutional lib brert at this that is striking all kinds of people as tyrannical. the idea that james clapper went before congress and lied to their faces, which is a felony, when asked whether or not the nsa is collecting millions of records indiscriminately against americans. i think even in the courts there s movement in the fiza court to say that there was a decision in 2011 that found that the united states government, the obama administration said there s spying on american citizens. the fiza court said we have no objection to know about our 80 page ruling. it s radically changed how
and a potential life sentence for his role in the embassy bomb bombings, david lee miller outside the federal courthouse. one witness testimony kept out of court because the judge ruled they got his statements after torturing him. that s right, shepard. that witness was hussein the judge in this case caplin ruled that his name only surfaced because the defendant here, ahmed ghailani had, in fact, been subjected to coerce siive questioning which some call torture a three page ruling. he had a footnote in that document, shepard. he wrote that, quote it is far from clear whether his testimony would be admissible if ghailani would be tried by a military commission. so the judge took the position that it s very possible the same decision would have been made by a military tribunal. never the less many have argued that defendants by ghailani
americans to have health insurance was upheld after a 5-4 ruling. the chief justice john roberts leading the majority. 200-plus page ruling is dense and legal scholars and reporters have been trying to digest it all day long. correspondent shannon bream has the lead story. in a 5-4 decision in where john roberts joined the liberal wing, they upheld the individual mandate. but not in the way the law supporters thought the justices would. roberts wrote, it is reasonable to construe what congress has done as increasing taxes, but legislation is within congress power to tax. in the majority opinion roberts made clear that the mandate was not permissible under the commerce clause, but rather through congress power to tax. supporters call it a momentum win for the administration. it affirmed that president obama signature legislative achievement is constitutional