JUDICIAL WATCH v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE - Civil Action 97-2416. In October of 1997, Judicial Watch filed a fourth lawsuit against Commerce, this time seeking all documents produced by Commerce to the Justice Department, Congress, or any grand jury impaneled in any judicial district of the United States.
JUDICIAL WATCH v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE - Civil Action 97-0289. In November 1996, Judicial Watch filed a third lawsuit against Commerce, this time for information on all trade missions not covered by our earlier requests. Once again, the Commerce Department turned over some documents, but withheld others it claimed were privileged. All three of Judicial Watch's cases against the Commerce Department deal with issues of how participants on trade missions were selected and how illegal fundraising was conducted by the Clinton Administration.
JUDICIAL WATCH v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE - Civil Action 96-2747. In October, 1996, Judicial Watch filed another lawsuit against Commerce, for additional information on its trade missions to Indonesia and on the activities of John Huang, Melinda Yee, the Lippo Group, and others involved in the campaign finance scandal.
JUDICIAL WATCH v. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE - (Pardongate) In the last day of his presidency, Bill Clinton granted 140 pardons and commuted 36 sentences (a scandal that came to be known as Pardongate), many of them to convicted felons who had paid large fees to Clinton associates. While this case began as an investigation into corruption, it has also become a fight against government secrecy. Judicial Watch litigated for five years in an effort to force the Bush Department of Justice to release the thousands of pardon documents.
JUDICIAL WATCH v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE - Judicial Watch filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the Department of Defense in March 2004 to obtain documents concerning the Empower Peace website and the Rendon Group.It has been reported that the Pentagon has made use of the Rendon Group to influence public opinion.The Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 (22 U.S.C. ' 1461), forbids the domestic dissemination of U.S. government-authored or developed propaganda or “official news” deliberately designed to influence public opinion or policy.
DONATO DALRYMPLE, et. al. v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - This action arises from the April 22, 2000 pre-dawn raid on the home of Lazaro, Angela, and Marisleysis Gonzalez in Miami, Florida that seized six-year old Cuban asylum seeker Elian Gonzalez from the custody of his U.S. relatives and returned him to Communist-controlled Cuba.
JESSE LEE PETERSON v. JESSE JACKSON, et. al. - The lawsuit alleges the defendants, during a December 10, 2001 public meeting to discuss the awarding of minority-oriented contracts by Toyota, surrounded and assaulted Rev. Peterson – calling him “nigger” as they taunted and harmed him.
Brentwood Road Postal Facility Anthrax CasE - Judicial Watch represents hundreds of United States Postal Service (“USPS”) workers and a USPS workers’ support group organized as “Brentwood Exposed,” concerning all matters related to the October 2001 anthrax attacks.
JUDICIAL WATCH, INC. v. THE UNITED STATES SENATE, et. al.- Judicial Watch, Inc. has suffered and is continuing to suffer significant, irreparable harm by reason of the unconstitutional application of Senate Rule XXII and Senate Rule V to the Estrada and Owen nominations. But for the efforts of a minority of U.S. senators to use Senate Rules XXII and V to prevent the confirmation of former Assistant Solicitor General Estrada and Justice Owen to federal judgeships, these well-qualified judicial nominees would have been confirmed, and will be confirmed, for appointments to the D.C. Circuit and Fifth Circuit, respectively, and their confirmations would have lessened, and will lessen, the high vacancy rates and resulting significant and prejudicial delays experienced by Judicial Watch, Inc. in litigating in the federal courts.
JUDICIAL WATCH v. THE STATE OF VERMONT, HOWARD DEAN, et. al. - This action seeks Defendants’ compliance with the Vermont Access to Public Records Act, 1 V.S.A. §§ 315 to 320. Defendants have steadfastly refused to disclose hundreds of thousands of pages of public records and papers of former Vermont Governor and current United States presidential candidate, Dr. Howard Dean, based solely on an unsupported, blanket claim of “executive privilege” as memorialized in a “Memorandum of Understanding” that Dr. Dean negotiated with the other Defendants.
Yordanis Montoya Isaac v. The Republic of Cuba - Judicial Watch Seeks Judgment Against Castro: Judicial Watch recently filed a "motion for judgment" on behalf of the family of a Cuban man summarily executed by the Castro regime in 2003. The victim, captured while trying to escape from Cuba, was executed by firing squad immediately after a sham trial. The execution took place as part of a broader violent crackdown by Castro against any dissent in Cuba. The lawsuit seeks an award of compensatory and punitive damages against the Cuban regime in excess of $100 million. See below for a copy of the motion for judgment and it supporting exhibits.
HOWARD B. THOMPSON, et. al. v. LI KA-SHING, GARY K. WINNICK, et. al. - This action arises from the huge fraud against many of the shareholders of GCL, potential investors in securities issued by GCL, and the integrity of the securities market, and from other and related unlawful, unfair, and fraudulent acts and practices that were perpetrated by directors, officers, affiliated persons, and accountants of Global Crossing Ltd. (“GCL”), directly or indirectly, with the assistance of corrupt elected and appointed public officials.
JUDICIAL WATCH v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY - This case concerns Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) requests sent by JW on April 19, 2001 to Defendants. When the Defendants failed to respond timely to JW’s FOIA requests, JW was forced to file this lawsuit on May 9, 2001.
ROBERT LAKE v. PROVIDIAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION, LARRY D. THOMPSON et. al. - Documents filed by Providian with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission state that Thompson was the Chairman of the Providian Audit and Compliance Committee for several years prior to his resignation to become Deputy Attorney General in mid-2001. The Complaint alleges that Thompson and other director and officer defendants knew that Providian’s financial condition was deteriorating and adopted a fraudulent scheme to delay recognition of losses from the second quarter 2001 into the third quarter 2001.
GENNIFER FLOWERS v. JAMES CARVILLE, GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS AND LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY - Judicial Watch is representing Gennifer Flowers in a defamation suit against Carville and Stephanopoulos for statements they made on CNN’s “Larry King Live” and for statements made by Stephanopoulos in his book All Too Human: A Political Education. Carville and Stephanopoulos repeatedly called Mrs. Flowers a liar and falsely accused her of fabricating evidence about her relationship with President Clinton.
