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Smith v. Government of the District of Columbia

1:15-cv-00737 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 15, 2015

Closed Date: April 4, 2024

This case concerns a constitutional challenge to gun laws in the District of Columbia. On May 15, 2015, a North Carolina resident brought suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Government of the District of Columbia. Plaintiff alleged that the District of Columbia’s gun registration laws were unconstitutional, violating the Second and Fifth Amendment rights of individuals situated similarly to her. In 2014, plaintiff had been pulled over while driving in D.C. and, …

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NATIONAL SECURITY
United States v. Hasbajrami

1:11-cr-00623 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 6, 2011

This case is the third time the government notified a criminal defendant that the evidence used against him was from a FISA warrantless wiretap. All the cases regarding criminal challenges to warrantless wiretapping are available in the criminal cases challenging FISA surveillance special collection. On September 6, 2011, Agron Hasbajrami, an Albanian citizen and a lawful U.S. permanent resident, was arrested boarding a flight to Istanbul, Turkey, on a one-way ticket. He was indicted two days l…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
United States v. Marmon Utility LLC

3:21-cr-00223 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Dec. 21, 2021

Closed Date: April 11, 2022

This was a prosecution brought by the United States against Marmon Utility LLC for discharging pollutants from its Kerite Power Cable & Pump Cable factory (Kerite factory) in violation of the Clean Water Act (CWA). The Kerite factory manufactures large power cables and, in the process, generates wastewater containing heavy metals such as lead and zinc. Under its state-issued CWA permit, the defendant was required to reduce the heavy metal content of the wastewater measures before it was dischar…
NATIONAL SECURITY
United States v. Gartenlaub

8:14-cr-00173 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 27, 2014

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requires the government to obtain a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) before it may conduct any domestic electronic surveillance to acquire foreign intelligence information. The warrant applications are made ex parte and must include a sworn statement by a federal officer of the facts and circumstances relied upon to justify the government's belief that the target of surveillance is a foreign power or an agent of a f…
NATIONAL SECURITY
United States v. Muhtorov

1:12-cr-00033 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 2012

Closed Date: Oct. 3, 2022

Introduction & Importance of this Case In early 2012, the federal government initiated criminal prosecution of Jamshid Muhtorov (January 19) and Bakhityor Jumaev (March 14) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. Both defendants were charged with providing, conspiring to provide, and attempting to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization, in violation of Title 18, U.S.C. § 2339B. Defendants were represented by the Federal Public Defender (Muhto…
NATIONAL SECURITY
United States v. Daher

2:18-cr-20559 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Aug. 14, 2018

Closed Date: Jan. 18, 2022

This is a federal criminal case where the government attempted to introduce evidence obtained through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). On August 14, 2018, two operators of a Detroit gas station were indicted in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan for the crime of defrauding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The defendants allegedly bought SNAP funds from recipients with cash at a discounted price, then fraudulently billed th…
NATIONAL SECURITY
United States v. Mohammad

3:15-cr-00358 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2015

Closed Date: Jan. 22, 2019

On September 30, 2015, Yahya Farooq Mohammad, Ibrahim Zubair Mohammad, Asif Ahmed Salim, and Sultane Roome Salim were indicted in U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Ohio for conspiracy to provide and conceal material support and resources to terrorists, for providing material support and resources to terrorists and for conspiracy to obstruct justice. Farooq Mohammad and Ibrahim Mohammad were additionally indicted for conspiracy to commit bank fraud. The defendants were appointed f…
NATIONAL SECURITY
USA v. Moalin

3:10-cr-04246 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 22, 2010

On October 22, 2010, three immigrants from Somalia were indicted on criminal charges in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. The case was assigned to Judge Jeffrey Miller. A superseding indictment added a fourth defendant to the charges on January 14, 2011. Each defendant was represented by private counsel, and one was additionally represented by the Civil Rights Clinic in Austin, Texas. The charges were related to the defendants’ alleged material and financial suppo…
NATIONAL SECURITY
United States v. Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab

1:16-cr-00181 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 17, 2016

Closed Date: Oct. 31, 2019

This is the eighth time the Justice Department has notified a criminal defendant that evidence being used against him came from a FISA warrantless wiretap, a move that is expected at some point to set up a Supreme Court test of whether such eavesdropping is constitutional. (As explained below, however, this case was resolved by guilty plea and will not be that test case.) All the cases are available in the Foreign Targeting (702, 703, 704) special collection. On January 7, 2016, Aws Mohammed Yo…
PRISON CONDITIONS
U.S. v. LaVallee

1:00-cr-00481 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Nov. 2, 2000

Closed Date: Jan. 10, 2011

On November 2, 2000, a federal grand jury indicted seven officers of the United States Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado. The indictment, superseded in February 2001, charged the defendants with one count of conspiracy to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate by falsely justifying uses of force against inmates; the remaining nine counts alleged physical assaults of individual inmates, depriving them of their Eighth Amendment right not to be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment. The ch…