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Reuters (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
... investigative files, were first ordered released, with redaction, in 2006 by U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein after he reviewed them and ruled they were of critical public interest.Their release was held up while the U.S. Department of Defense appealed, arguing the release would endanger U.S. soldiers and result in an unwarranted invasion of the privacy of the detainees they...
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TortsProf Blog (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
At a status conference yesterday, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein rejected objections by NYC to the use of a "severity chart" in the 9/11 respiratory illness cases. As reported by the New York Law Journal (via law.com), Special Masters James...
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RenewAmerica columns (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
(Warner Todd Huston) - In New York, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein has ordered the release of eight more grand jury transcripts from the famous 1951 spy case that led to the conviction of the husband and wife pro-Soviet spy team of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Reuters reports this story as if there is some cloud of doubt still hanging over the Rosenberg's conviction despite that...
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Stop the ACLU (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
-By Warner Todd Huston In New York, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein has ordered the release of eight more grand jury transcripts from the famous 1951 spy case that led to the conviction of the husband and wife pro-Soviet spy team of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Reuters reports this story as if there is some cloud [...]
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JURIST (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
[JURIST] A judge in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday ordered the federal government to release eight more grand jury transcripts from the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg espionage case. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein emphasized the historical value of the testimony, given in 1950 and 1952 by witnesses who either did not consent to the release or could...
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
In New York, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein has ordered the release of eight more grand jury transcripts from the famous 1951 spy case that led to the conviction of the husband and wife pro-Soviet spy team of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Reuters reports this story as if there is some cloud of doubt still hanging over the Rosenberg's conviction despite that their guilt is no longer...
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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
NEW YORK A judge ordered the release yesterday of key secret grand jury testimony in the atomic spy trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, citing its value to historians in the debate over national security versus freedom. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein pertained to witnesses whose sealed testimony was taken in 1950 and 1952. The witnesses are still alive but have...
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About Crime / Punishment (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
... were convicted of passing secrets to the Soviet Union and executed in 1953.U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein gave the government two months to appeal his decision, but he said the value of the information to historians outweighed any security risk releasing the information might still pose."Each generation has defined its own answer," Hellerstein said. "And each generation...
