Here’s a quick read-out from Tuesday’s oral argument in a trio of cases concerning detainees captured outside of Afghanistan, but eventually transferred to the custody of the U.S. military and held at a ...

On Wednesday, the Guantánamo detainees appealing the D.C. District Court's refusal to enjoin the government from force-feeding hunger-strikers at the detention camp filed their reply in Aamer v. Obama.

On Monday morning---after a marathon argument in a well publicized net neutrality case---the D.C. Circuit turned to this question, in the case of Hentif v. Obama: whether the appellant timely noted his a...

The issue for tomorrow morning's argument in the D.C. Circuit:  whether Guantanamo detainee Fadel Hussein Saleh Hentif's appeal was filed on time. In a redacted 2011 opinion, the district court had conc...

It was an odd turn of events yesterday at the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse.  For a moment, it seemed as if a controversial Guantanamo policy might be rescinded or modified. Friday morning saw a long-...

So writes the D.C. Circuit in this terse per curiam order.  It was issued Monday. Al Warafi, a Yemeni detainee, had claimed in the District Court that he had not joined the Taliban, but instead worked o...

Human rights advocates often express disappointment (if not anger) that the U.S. Government (and the Obama Administration in particular) is not more supportive of lawsuits in U.S.

The Second Circuit today held that the ATS claims against Ford, Daimler, and IBM  -- the three remaining defendants in the decade-long litigation against more than fifty companies for allegedly aiding an...

Raha Wala of Human Rights First has written in with an in-depth response, printed below in full, to my post the other day expressing disappointment in Senators Durbin and Feinstein’s op-ed on closing Gua...

Yesterday, Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Adnan Ajam filed a motion for partial summary judgment and for declaratory relief in his habeas suit before the D.C.