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District of Columbia v. Choi
In March 2013, Dan Choi, a West Point graduate and combat veteran of the Iraq War who had been discharged from the Army after he came out as gay on the Rachel Maddow Show, was charged with “failure to obey...
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In March 2013, Dan Choi, a West Point graduate and combat veteran of the Iraq War who had been discharged from the Army after he came out as gay on the Rachel Maddow Show, was charged with “failure to obey...
In 2011, Ms. Fretes-Zarate, a citizen of Paraguay and a lawful resident of the United States with a five-year-old U.S.-born son, was convicted of simple assault on her former husband after a domestic...
Numerous copyright infringement cases have been filed in federal courts here and elsewhere by the alleged owners of various (mostly pornographic) motion pictures, alleging that each of many “John Doe”...
This case seeks damages on behalf of several Occupy D.C. protesters who were arrested in April 2012 and charged with “blocking passage” when they were simply sitting on a narrow sliver of a 40-foot-wide...