Per Curiam Order in Hamdan Regarding Oral Argument & Mootness
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Oral argument in Hamdan will be held on Thursday in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judges David Sentelle, Brett Kavanaugh and Douglas Ginsburg. This order just came in regarding oral argument:
It is ORDERED, on the court’s own motion, that the parties be prepared to address at oral argument on May 3, 2012, the question whether this case is moot. Compare Sibron v. New York, 392 U.S. 40 (1968), with Spencer v. Kemna, 523 U.S. 1 (1998). See also Perez v. Greiner, 296 F.3d 123 (2d Cir. 2002).
Raffaela Wakeman is a Senior Director at In-Q-Tel. She started her career at the Brookings Institution, where she spent five years conducting research on national security, election reform, and Congress. During this time she was also the Associate Editor of Lawfare. From there, Raffaela practiced law at the U.S. Department of Defense for four years, advising her clients on privacy and surveillance law, cybersecurity, and foreign liaison relationships. She departed DoD in 2019 to join the Majority Staff of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where she oversaw the Intelligence Community’s science and technology portfolios, cybersecurity, and surveillance activities. She left HPSCI in May 2021 to join IQT.
Raffaela received her BS and MS in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009 and her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 2015, where she was recognized for her commitment to public service with the Joyce Chiang Memorial Award. While at the Department of Defense, she was the inaugural recipient of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s General Counsel Award for exhibiting the highest standards of leadership, professional conduct, and integrity.
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