Second Circuit Releases Redacted OLC Drone Memo
The Second Circuit has just released a redacted version of the OLC Drone Memo--here is the memo; here is the panel's full, revised April 21, 2014 decision with the memo appended at page 67.
You'll recall that back in April, a three-judge panel (comprising Judges Newman, Cabranes and Pooler) reversed a l
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The Second Circuit has just released a redacted version of the OLC Drone Memo--here is the memo; here is the panel's full, revised April 21, 2014 decision with the memo appended at page 67.
You'll recall that back in April, a three-judge panel (comprising Judges Newman, Cabranes and Pooler) reversed a lower court decision dismissing the ACLU's suit for release of the memo containing the legal justification for the targeted killing of American citizen Anwar Al Awlaki. Today the panel filed a revised opinion with the memo appended, after granting the government's request for additional redactions to and correction of its April 21 opinion.
Jane Chong is former deputy managing editor of Lawfare. She served as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and is a graduate of Yale Law School and Duke University.
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