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Detainees Request Permission to Address Revised Force-Feeding Protocols in Aamer v. Obama
The detainees in Aamer v. Obama, the force-feeding case on appeal before the D.C. Circuit, have filed another letter with the court. In a Nov. 21 letter, the government notified the court that the force-... -
Apropos of Judge Edwards: Petition for Certiorari Filed in Hussain
It is somewhat old news, though refreshed a bit in light of yesterday's Ali decision from the D.C. Circuit: on November 19, lawyers for another Guantanamo detainee, Abdul al Qader Ahmed Hussain, asked th... -
Judge Edwards's Odd Concurrence in Ali
Both Raffaela and Steve have already noted the D.C. Circuit's opinion yesterday in Abdul Razak Ali v. Obama, the latest Guantanamo habeas case. -
D.C. Circuit Affirms Habeas Denial in Ali v. Obama
As Steve already noted, the D.C. Circuit has affirmed the district court's denial of a writ of habeas corpus to Guantanamo detainee Abdul Razak Ali. We covered the oral argument this fall, in preview and... -
Judge Edwards and "Functionally Useless" Habeas
This morning's D.C. Circuit decision in Ali v. Obama is not exactly a shocker, given the court's ever-solidifying body of jurisprudence on the scope of the government's power to detain non-citizen terror... -
Overview of Restrictions on Counsel in the Tsarnaev and 9/11 Cases
From the defense's standpoint, which are more onerous: restrictions on lawyers in civilian terrorism cases or restrictions used in military commissions? Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ... -
NDAA Amendment Could Make Anti-Terrorism Act a New Alien Tort Statute
When the Senate returns on December 9 to take up the National Defense Authorization Act, one of the more than 500 amendments Senators will consider is a provision that would amend the Anti-Terrorism Act ... -
Whither Hamidullah? Briefs on Bagram Habeas Petition Status Post-Repatriation
The briefing regarding the mootness of the habeas appeal of the now-former Bagram detainee, Hamidullah, is before the D.C. Circuit. Last week the U.S. government informed Hamidullah's attorneys that he h... -
More Filings Re: Hunger-Striker’s Motion to Intervene in Aamer v. Obama
Three updates in Aamer v. Obama, the force-feeding case on appeal to the D.C. Circuit. On November 14, the government filed its opposition to Guantanamo detainee Imad Abdullah Hassan’s motion to interve... -
Government Files Brief in D.C. Circuit Gitmo Detainee Civil Case
The government has filed its brief in Al Laithi v. Rumsfeld and Celikgogus v. Rumsfeld, a case involving the consolidated claims of former Guantanamo detainees against former government officials in thei... -
The First Circuit and the First Amendment
This week’s much-anticipated decision by the First Circuit in Mehanna v. -
The Tarek Mehanna Decision: A Brief Summary
As Ben previewed yesterday, the First Circuit Court of Appeals, in an opinion written by Judge Bruce M. Selya, affirmed the conviction of Tarek Mehanna on a number of terrorism and false statement charge...
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