The Supreme Court denied cert this morning in Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, leaving in place the Ninth Circuit’s en banc opinion affirming dismissal of a civil suit (relating to rendition) on state secre...

Last Wednesday counsel for Toffiq Al Bihani filed a petition for certiorari in the Supreme Court. Readers may recall that the D.C.

Well, at least we learned something about fisheries. Following this morning's lengthy oral argument in Oceana, Inc. v. Locke, the D.C. Circuit had an oh-so-brief brief discussion of Khan v. Obama in ope...

On Friday morning the D.C. Circuit will hear oral argument in Khan v. Obama (Case No.

This press release story in the Miami Herald announces that the British advocacy group, Reprieve, is in the midst of developing a litigation strategy designed to stop the United States from conducting dr...

If a person can't be troubled to agree with me, the very least he can do is to write good prose. Man, oh man, can Sabin Willett write good prose! Willett, who represented the Uighurs in their Supreme Cou...

News that charges have been re-sworn against al-Nashiri in the military commission system has prompted commentary regarding which Title 18 offenses could have been brought had he been charged instead in ...

The other day, I expressed bewilderment at the intellectual convergence between the political Left and Judge Laurence Silberman over whether post-Boumediene litigation has left habeas an empty shell.

One GTMO-related case—Khadr v. Obama (No. 10-751) remains pending before the Supreme Court at the certiorari stage, and it has just been re-listed for the first time (Kiyemba, in which the Court just den...

Today the Supreme Court denied cert. to the five Uighur detainees held at Guantanamo.