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I have largely suspended my campaign of fact-checking New York Times editorials, but this one is too good to pass up. In his opinion the other day on counsel access issues at Guantanamo, Judge Royce Lamb...
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The State Department has announced that it will, at long last, designate the Haqqani Network as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. Apart from the rhetorical value of the designation, the main consequence...
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On September 4, Judge Naomi Buchwald of the Southern District of New York dismissed an Alien Tort Statute suit against President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka, on the basis of a Suggestion of Immunity f...
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Chief Judge Royce Lamberth's order is here.
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To the list of upcoming habeas cases in the court of appeals, add these: first, Khairkhwa v. Obama, which is set for argument on October 5th; and second, Hussain v.
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Remember Suleiman v. Obama? That's the habeas case in which the petitioner had claimed, among other things, that he could not be detained because he was merely a Taliban functionary who never took up ar...
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Yesterday the D.C. Circuit issued its decision in United States v.
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The D.C.
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Last fall, a panel of the Ninth Circuit issued a sweeping decision in the long-running Alien Tort Statute suit against Rio Tinto rejecting Rio Tinto’s defenses on nearly every issue and prompting dissent...
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Earlier this week, Judge Rosemary Collyer rejected a proposed modification to protective orders entered in Mohammed al Qahtani's habeas case. Al Qahtani's lawyers had asked the judge to change the order...
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Ben earlier noted an order, in which Judge John Bates instructed petitioners in Al Maqleh v. Obama to file, by no later than today, a "short summary, not to exceed two pages," of any newly discovered fac...
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Earlier today, Judge Rosemary Collyer rejected an attempt by attorneys for detainee Mohammed al Qahtani to modify two protective orders entered in al Qahtani's habeas case.
The proposed modification con...