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Two Quite Important Rulings Today

Wells Bennett
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, 5:00 PM
Coincidentally, they come to us from two different federal judges in the District of Oregon. The first decision concludes that remedial mechanisms associated with the so-called "No Fly" list violate due process;  the second rejects a defendant's post-conviction effort to have an indictment thrown out---and, among other things, in doing so also rejects a constitutional attack on Section 702 of FISA. Have a look at the quite significant opinions in Latif v.

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Coincidentally, they come to us from two different federal judges in the District of Oregon. The first decision concludes that remedial mechanisms associated with the so-called "No Fly" list violate due process;  the second rejects a defendant's post-conviction effort to have an indictment thrown out---and, among other things, in doing so also rejects a constitutional attack on Section 702 of FISA. Have a look at the quite significant opinions in Latif v. Holder and United States v. Mohamud.

Wells C. Bennett was Managing Editor of Lawfare and a Fellow in National Security Law at the Brookings Institution. Before coming to Brookings, he was an Associate at Arnold & Porter LLP.

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