[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Tuesday rejected [opinion; PDF] a First Amendment challenge to a City of Los Angeles [official website] ban on billboards. Metro Lights, an outdoor advertising company, argued [LA Times report] that the ban on billboard …
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Ninth Circuit upholds Los Angeles billboard ban
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/01/ninth-circuit-upholds-los-angeles.phpFederal judge allows habeas petitions to proceed until military commissions referral
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/01/federal-judge-allows-habeas-petitions.php[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday [official website] granted [opinion; PDF] the government's motion to hold in abeyance the habeas corpus petitions of two Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees, but only if and when the charges against the pair are referred to military commissions. …
Federal prosecutor requests that Madoff be jailed for mailing jewelry to relatives
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/01/federal-prosecutor-requests-that-madoff.php[JURIST] Assistant US Attorney Marc Litt on Tuesday urged that Bernard Madoff [JURIST news archive] be jailed, in a brief [text, PDF] filed with the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website]. …