Judge grants motion in limine:
Evidence about torture, war, international law not allowed during trial
from report of Bill Quigley, lawyer for defendants

Essentially, the Judge ruled that he would not allow the presentation of any evidence at all about torture by the US government, or the teaching of torture by the US government at Fort Huachuca, or international law or anything about war or war crimes or interrogation at Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo or any other place inside or outside the US to be put into the official record of the trial as part of the defense of Fathers Kelly and Vitale.
He ordered Fr. Vitale to come back to court on September 21 to hold a hearing on conditions of release and ordered all to confer within the next 10 days and pick 3 possible trial dates.

Summary of court order released by the U.S. Magistrate in Arizona:

The judge dismissed our request for jury trial;
The judge refused our request that he dismiss the trial;
The judge granted the government's motion in limine to preclude defenses. This means we cannot introduce evidence, either documentary or testimonial, at trial of the defenses of: duress, justification, necessity, self-defense, morality or immorality of Government's use of interrogation techniques, training of soldiers in interrogation techniques, legality of the war in Iraq; the legality of the war in afghanistan; any military actions to support interrogations in any foregin countries; the legality of the military commission act of 2006; the defense of international law; or the wisdom of any political question or government policy as an attempt to establish the defense of justification.
The judge refused to grant the government's motion to use Fr. Vitale's prior arrests and convictions as prima facie evidence of trespass.
The judge ordered Fr. Vitale to return to court on Frdiay September 21, 2007 at 11:30 am to address whether his conditions of release should be modified - Fr. Vitale is ordered to be present at the hearing.(another date will be proposed since Bill can't make it that date)
The court directed both sides to confer and come up with 3 dates for the trial and report back to the court in 10 days.