Former Attorney General John Ashcroft is immune from a damages suit claiming he misused the federal material witness statute in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks as a pretext to detain suspects, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled. The justices unanimously agreed that Ashcroft had not violated “clearly established law.”
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit has ruled that attorney Alan Gura is entitled to recover his legal fees for winning the landmark gun rights case, McDonald v. Chicago. A three-judge panel ruled unanimously that Gura’s efforts altered the legal relationship between the parties. A trial judge had determined that Gura’s client was not the prevailing party because Chicago, days after the high court struck down the city’s strict gun law, repealed and amended that law.
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