On August 16, a judge in the Southern District of New York dismissed a suit brought against the Emir of Kuwait, Sheik Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, under the Alien Tort Statute and the Torture Victim...

Last week, D.C.

Ben beat me to it, but this morning, the D.C Circuit issued a terse order removing United States v.

This is interesting. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has just entered the following docket order in the military commission appeal of Ali Hamza Ahmad al Bahlul: CLERK'S ORDER filed . . . , on the cou...

The motions hearing that begins tomorrow in the 9/11 military commissions case is far too sprawling to preview motion by motion. Instead, we've broken it up thematically. Nearly all of the 25 motions on ...

Over at SCOTUSblog, there's a terrific symposium underway to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The Least Dangerous Branch, Alex Bickel's seminal work on the Supreme Court and judicial review.

Here’s your read-out on this morning’s oral argument, before Chief Judge Royce Lamberth, in what Lawfarers have come to know as the Guantanamo counsel access dispute.  (Background can be found here, here...

David Remes, an attorney for Guantanamo habeas petitioners Uthman and Esmail, has sent in this overview of the ongoing Guantanamo counsel access dispute. In brief: Remes and others recently objected to ...

This just in: the last words (for a few days, anyway) in the Guantanamo attorney-client access dispute now pending before Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S.

From Courthouse New Service:  Invoking the mass detention of Japanese-Americans during World War II, a federal judge on Tuesday appeared ready to uphold her injunction against the law that lets the U.S. ...

I am on vacation, and blogging only minimally, so I missed this week's hearing before Judge Katherine Forrest on the plaintiff's request for a permanent injunction in Hedges. Seeing as how the argument t...