Royce C. Lamberth
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...hero wants to kill healthcare reform. Is it finally time to give up on him? At long last, federal Judge Royce Lamberth dismisses "Filegate." Let's not forget the fraud's keenest...
Filegate judge: There's no there there -- and never was
At long last, federal Judge Royce Lamberth dismisses "Filegate." Let's not forget the fraud's keenest promoters "Filegate" is a term that always deserved scare quotes, because the...
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Clinton-era Filegate appears to have closed, 14 years on
...and the FBI, saying their privacy had been violated. But Tuesday, U.S. District Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth tossed the case. "After years of litigation, endless depositions, the...
Clinton-era 'Filegate' case tossed out
...and the FBI for violating their privacy. But on Tuesday, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth tossed the case. "After years of litigation, endless depositions, the...
Summing up his findings, Lamberth wrote: "After years of litigation, endless depositions, the fictionalized portrayal of this lawsuit and its litigants on television, this court is left to conclude that with the lawsuit, to quote Gertrude Stein, 'there's no there there.'" A Reagan appointee once lauded by Klayman himself as "this great jurist," he showed a talent for understatement when he noted that "after ample opportunity," the plaintiffs "have not produced any evidence of the far-reaching conspiracy that sought to use intimate details from FBI files for political assassinations that they alleged. The only thing that they have demonstrated is that this unfortunate episode -- about which they do have cause to complain -- was exactly what the defendants claimed: a bureaucratic snafu."
Filegate judge: There's no there there -- and never was Salon | 1 week ago
Judge kills off Filegate suits, 14 years on
...legal remnants of Filegate, a scandal that engulfed the Clinton White House nearly 14 years ago. Judge Royce Lamberth dispatched a pair of suits over the matter today, ruling that...
Tenn. federal judge won't dismiss jaw injury cases
...security arguments to shield itself from a potentially embarrassing lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who earlier ruled that CIA officials committed fraud to protect a former...
New punishment trial for man after judge-DA affair
...gangs are more deadly than some Guantanamo Bay detainees who could face trial in U.S. courts. Judge Royce Lamberth, the chief judge at federal court in Washington, was speaking at an...
Ala. town marks infamous case 8 decades later
...gangs are more deadly than some Guantanamo Bay detainees who could face trial in U.S. courts. Judge Royce Lamberth, the chief judge at federal court in Washington, was speaking at...
Former Chinese police chief's gang trial ends
...gangs are more deadly than some Guantanamo Bay detainees who could face trial in U.S. courts. Judge Royce Lamberth, the chief judge at federal court in Washington, was speaking at an...
Obama faces dwindling options in his effort to close Guantanamo Bay
He said he did not know how much the stepped-up security would cost. Lamberth said Justice Department officials have told him which terrorism suspects they are considering bringing...
Tangle Of Detainee Rules Leads To Court Confusion
...each of our courts is deciding for themselves the proper definition," Lamberth said. "Most of us have adopted one definition, but I have one renegade judge that's got another...
Judge calls gangs deadlier than detainees
...can really protect national security fully is really an open question. '' Lamberth said he "bristled'' when he heard Holder predict that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the others will be...
