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We've previously covered the Fourth Circuit's pair of decisions in September dismissing tort suits against various contractors arising out of claims of torture at various detention facilities in Iraq--in...
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What an interesting day for the question of how to address cases involving participation in the insurgency in Iraq.
Earlier today we learned that Ali Musa Daqduq, the last American military detainee in ...
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Last week, Nazul Gul and Adel Hassan Amad – both former Guantanamo detainees who were transferred by the United States to their home nations before their habeas petitions were resolved – sought a writ of...
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Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman responds to the government's argument against his cert petition in his new reply brief, available here. It opens:
The petition in this case presents in stark terms the ...
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At least, Adam Liptak does in a well-worth-reading column about Latif. Take that, editorial staff!
On a more serious note, here's the money quote:
Latif is the next great Guantánamo case--whether the Su...
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An interesting Afghanistan habeas decision today, from the UK: Yunus Ramhmatullah v. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs et ano. (Court of Appeals (Civil Division)).
In an opinion b...
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For reasons I plan to elaborate upon in this and subsequent posts, I'm not at all convinced that the conference version of the NDAA is substantially better than the House or Senate version (or that eithe...
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Whatever else one might say about the D.C. Circuit's jurisprudence in the Guantanamo litigation, it's certainly been a jobs program...
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The New York Times's Scott Shane this morning has a very beautifully reported feature story about domestic prisons, law enforcement, and terrorism cases. It is a rich read, including some fascinating cor...
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I bet you thought this would be a post about Ali Musa Daqduq. But, no, this is about Faruq Khalil Muhammad 'Isa, who has been indicted in Brooklyn on charges of conspiring to kill U.S.
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A redacted version of the cert petition in the case of Hussain Salem Mohammed Almerfedi is now public.