SCOTUS: Respondent's Brief in Ashcroft v. Al Kidd
The respondent's merits brief recently became available in Ashcroft v. Al-Kidd, the case challenging whether John Ashcroft can be sued in his personal capacity for misuse of the material witness statute (18 U.S.C. § 3144). In December the government--the petitioner in this case--filed its merits brief.
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The respondent's merits brief recently became available in Ashcroft v. Al-Kidd, the case challenging whether John Ashcroft can be sued in his personal capacity for misuse of the material witness statute (18 U.S.C. § 3144). In December the government--the petitioner in this case--filed its merits brief. That was followed on January 21st by the response brief of Al-Kidd, who won his case at the Ninth Circuit.
The case is set for oral argument at the Court on Wednesday, March 2, 2011. Readers can find SCOTUSblog's collection of documents, including the Ninth Circuit opinion and several of the electronically available amicus briefs, here.
Larkin Reynolds is an associate at a D.C. law firm and was a legal fellow at Brookings from 2010 to 2011. Larkin holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she served as a founding editor of the Harvard National Security Journal and interned with the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps, and the National Security Division of the Department of Justice. She also has a B.A. in international relations from New York University.
