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Type | legal |
Examples
Page name | Start | End | Decided in | Defendants | Plaintiffs | Description |
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ABC Trial | 5 September 1978 | 17 November 1978 | John Berry Duncan Campbell Crispin Aubrey | An official secrets case of 1977-78 during which the UK Labour government prosecuted 3 people for holding an interview, using the Official Secrets Act 1911, a law they earlier had promised to repeal. | ||
Berezovsky v Abramovitch | 31 October 2011 | 31 August 2012 | High Court of Justice | Roman Abramovich | Boris Berezovsky | |
Clapper v. Amnesty International USA | 29 October 2012 | 26 February 2013 | United States Supreme Court | Amnesty International USA | James Clapper | James Clapper sought to dismiss Amnesty International's challenge of the Fisa Amendments Act. They Supreme Court ruled that dragnet surveillance could not be challenged since the plaintiffs were unlikely to be targets of surveillance - something that was revealed a few months later by the Edward Snowden leaks to be untrue. The decision appear to be nevertheless unchallenged. |
Ergenekon trials | ||||||
Hedges v. Obama | 13 January 2012 | 28 April 2014 | United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit | Barack Obama Leon Panetta John McCain John Boehner Harry Reid Mitch McConnell Eric Cantor Nancy Pelosi US Department of Defense United States of America | Daniel Ellsberg Chris Hedges Noam Chomsky Jenifer Bolen Kai Wargalla Birgitta Jónsdóttir Alexa O'Brien | The plaintiffs challenged the 2012 NDAA contending that indefinite detention on "suspicion of providing substantial support" to groups such as al-Qaeda and the Taliban was so vague as to allow unconstitutional, indefinite detention of civilians based on vague allegations. The Court of Appeals struck down an initial agreement, and the US Supreme Court concurred, arguing that the plaintiffs could not prove they would be affected by the law, so had no standing to contest it. |
Mani pulite | 17 February 1992 | 2002 | ||||
Saifullah Paracha v. George W. Bush | 8 December 2004 | 18 November 2008 | George W. Bush | Saifullah Paracha | A habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of a prisoner of Guantanamo Bay. | |
Saleh v. Bush | 13 March 2013 | 10 February 2017 | United States District Court Northern District of California | Paul Wolfowitz George W. Bush Dick Cheney Donald Rumsfeld Condoleezza Rice Colin Powell | Sundus Shaker Saleh | A legal claim that the Iraq war was an illegal act of aggression, dismissed in 2017 by the Westfall Act since it was carried out by US government employees within the scope of their employment. |
Secret trial | Characteristic of dictatorships, already happening in the UK, coming soon to a nation state near you...? |
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