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Show Cause Order In the 9/11 Case Now Available
We reported last Friday on an order in United States v. -
Appellee Brief Filed in ACLU v. CIA
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No SCOTUS Action on GTMO Cases
The Supreme Court orders list just came down, and there appears to have been no cert action on any of the Guantanamo cases on which cert decisions were expected. -
House Votes to Bar Civilian Trial of Persons Within Scope of Military Commission Jurisdiction
Amidst all the discussion of whether and how to amend the House NDAA bill to address domestic captures, I am amazed that I did not notice the Rooney Amendment, which has been adopted. What does it do? ... -
Should the 9/11 Defendants Be Tried Separately?
So asks Judge James Pohl, in an order he reportedly issued yesterday in United States v. -
The Government's Litigating Position in Hedges
In my post this morning on Hedges, I wondered whether government counsel had made the court aware of the Obama administration's strong position against military detention for citizens and for anyone capt... -
Two Cents on Hedges
By now you've gotten the lowdown - from Steve, Bobby, Ben or from some or all of them - about yesterday's puzzling decision in Hedges v. -
(Timely) Symposium on Contractor Accountability Over @ Opinio Juris
Our friends over at Opinio Juris are hosting a neat online symposium discussion of Professor Laura Dickinson's book Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Af... -
Government Files Brief, Reams of Paper, in Bahlul
We noted last week that the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals denied Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul's petition for an initial hearing in that court en banc. -
Transcript in Hamdan Available
The unofficial transcript from May 3rd's oral argument in Hamdan v. USA in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals before Chief Circuit Judge David Sentelle and Circuit Judges Douglas Ginsburg and Brett Kavana... -
A Few Thoughts on Hedges
I am as perplexed by yesterday's Hedges decision as either Steve and Bobby--and largely agree with both of their posts on the subject. -
Why Hedges v. Obama is Terribly Perplexing
I've now had more of a chance to read through Judge Forrest's decision Wednesday in Hedges v. Obama, which (seems to) enter a preliminary injunction against some or all of section 1021 of the FY2012 Nati...
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