Trial

Trial
Type	legal

 

Examples

Page name	Start	End	Decided in	Defendants	Plaintiffs	Description
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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