The conviction of Ahmed Ghailani in the al-Qaeda conspiracy to bomb U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 was upheld on October 24 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The court concluded that his rights to a speedy trial were not violated by his extended detention and interrogation abroad by the Central Intelligence Agency and then by the Department of Defense at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base — a delay of more than five years before his 2009 transfer to New York for trial.
BLOW TO LAW SCHOOL CLAIMS
A state trial judge on October 21 denied class certification in a lawsuit that spawned a wave of claims by alumni that law schools duped them to enroll by promoting misleading post-graduate employment statistics. San Diego Superior Court Judge Joel Pressman said there was no objective way to determine whether the plaintiffs, as claimed, consulted U.S. News & World Report’s law school rankings when deciding where to enroll. The ruling raised questions about four similar suits pending against California law schools.
