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This slipped by me on Friday, when I was in Cambridge plotting the next phase of Lawfare's expansion. The D.C. Circuit has issued an unredacted opinion in this case, Ameziane v. Obama, which actually cam...
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Yesterday, we promised to be in attendance during today's argument session in Khairkhwa v. Obama
And this morning, yours truly sat through two standard-issue D.C.
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Anton Metlitsky, counsel in the Appellate practice of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, writes in with the following comments on the Kiobel oral argument. Metlitsky represents the Rio Tinto Group in its pending cer...
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A reminder that tomorrow morning will see argument before the D.C. Circuit in the case of Khairkhwa v. Obama. In short, the case concerns a Taliban functionary who claims to have played a civilian---not...
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Earlier this week, the Supreme Court decided not to review the case of Suleiman v. Obama. No surprise there; the justices hardly seem to wish to wade into detention issues these days.
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So we learn from ABC's Jake Tapper, who in turn quotes from Mark Bowden's forthcoming book, "The Finish," about the bin Laden raid:
If Osama bin Laden had surrendered to the Navy SEALs, President Obama w...
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Today marks the five-month anniversary of the oral arguments before the D.C. Circuit in United States v.
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The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has has just stayed Judge Katherine Forrest's decision in Hedges:
For the following reasons, we conclude that the public interest weighs in favor of granting the gover...
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The D.C. Circuit has handed down procedural orders in two Guantanamo detention cases.
The first grants a joint motion regarding Friday's oral argument in Khairkhwa v. Obama. The argument session will b...
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Now this is interesting: an amicus brief by retired military admirals and generals, on behalf of the appellant in Nashiri v.
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The Kiobel v.
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Briefing is now complete on the government’s motion to stay pending appeal in Hedges v. Obama. (You’ll recall that a circuit judge already stayed the district court’s order temporarily, pending resoluti...