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Cert Briefing Completed in Suleiman
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... -
D.C. Circuit Upholds Narcoterrorism Conviction in United States v. Mohammed
Yesterday the D.C. Circuit issued its decision in United States v. -
<em>Warafi</em> Briefs and Oral Argument
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Recent Decisions May Make Ninth Circuit a Magnet for Foreign Plaintiffs
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... -
Briefing on Protective Order Modification in Al Qahtani
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... -
Petitioner's Filing in Al Maqaleh
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... -
Court Rejects Modification of Protective Orders in al-Qahtani's Habeas Case
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... -
Beyond the Battlefield, Beyond al Qaeda: The Destabilizing Legal Architecture of Counterterrorism
I'm happy to report that I've recently completed drafting an article that has been much on my mind for the past few years. Beyond the Battlefield, Beyond al Qaeda: The Destabilizing Legal Architecture o... -
New Order in <em>Maqaleh</em>
U.S. District Judge John Bates has entered the following order in Maqaleh, the case testing federal court habeas jurisdiction for detainees at Bagram: MINUTE ORDER: The Court has received 81 petitioners'... -
William Marra and Sonia McNeil on Regulating the Next Generation of Drones
Recent Harvard Law School grads William Marra and Sonia McNeil--authors of the first Lawfare Research Paper--have released a short Brookings briefing paper on the regulation of future drones in domestic ... -
Bahlul Update: Age-Old Memorandum on the Gimpel and Colebaugh Military Commission
The government has just posted a memorandum from March 12, 1945 in the Bahlul docket concerning the question of whether participation in a conspiracy to commit an offense against the law of war is punish... -
Big Sixth Circuit Terrorism Case
Haven’t read this yet, but U.S. v. Amawi, which came down yesterday, looks pretty interesting. The opinion is by Judge Danny Boggs, and while the disposition was unanimous, one of the judges wrote separa...
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