A Sept. 11-related terrorism trial will begin near the site of the former World Trade Center, and other news in this week's Law Blog Roundup.

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WASHINGTON — A federal judge Thursday ordered the government to stop genital searches of Guantanamo Bay detainees who want to meet with their lawyers, concluding that the motivation for the searches is not to enhance security, but to deter the ...

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WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court judge Tuesday called on the president and Congress to consider a different approach to the handling of legal cases of Guantanamo Bay prisoners. Judge Harry T. Edwards made the comment at the end of ...

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FORT MEADE — A video of a U.S. Apache helicopter attack leaked by Pfc. Bradley Manning revealed sensitive information that could help enemies plan deadlier assaults, according to a Pentagon official’s statement read Wednesday at the soldier’s court-martial. The cockpit ...

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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Lawyers for the five Guantanamo Bay prisoners charged in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks want to know if U.S. government officials have been eavesdropping on their private conversations with the defendants. The evidence for ...

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FORT MEADE — A military judge at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba is ordering a mental health examination for a prisoner accused of orchestrating the attack on the USS Cole. Army Col. James Pohl issued the order Monday ...

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McLEAN, Va. — When former CIA officer John Kiriakou is sentenced Friday in federal court for leaking the name of one of the agency’s covert operatives to a reporter, his ultimate fate will not be in doubt. The plea calls ...

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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — An approaching storm prompted the U.S. military to place its base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, under an alert Wednesday and cancel several days of pretrial hearings in the case of five prisoners charged in ...

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ELLICOTT CITY — Verizon Communications Inc. says all services disrupted by a train derailment near Baltimore have been restored. The New York-based company said Wednesday that all services were operating normally by 9 p.m. Tuesday. Land-line services to some customers ...

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FORT MEADE — The military judge presiding over the war crimes trial of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner charged in the attack on the USS Cole rejected a motion Tuesday by defense attorneys that he remove himself from the case. Lawyers ...

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