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Cybercrime Roundup: WorldPay Update
On July 20, Judge Steven Jones of the Northern District of Georgia sentenced Evgeny Levitskyy (known by the moniker M.ur.d.e.r.e.r.) to 46 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Levitsky... -
DreamHost Documents Summaries
On July 28, the Department of Justice turned to the D.C. superior court to enforce a since-modified computer search warrant against DreamHost, a web hosting service. One of DreamHost’s customers, a websi... -
An Open Letter to Joseph Arpaio’s Attorneys
Last week, I wrote an op-ed in The Boston Globe suggesting that a private attorney should be appointed to challenge the constitutionality of former Sheriff Joseph Arpaio’s pardon—a suggestion that has no... -
An American Enemy Combatant Case? The News Out of DOD, and What Might Happen Next
DOD has confirmed that an (as-yet-unidentified) American citizen is being held in U.S. military custody in Syria or Iraq as an enemy combatant. More specifically, the available information asserts that ... -
Full Supreme Court Stays Ninth Circuit Order on Refugee Assurances
On Tuesday, the full Supreme Court ordered a stay of part of the Ninth Circuit’s order from last week regarding President Trump’s revised order related to refugees, Executive Order 13780 (EO). The full C... -
Summary of Judge Cooper's Opinion on Motion in Limine in United States v. Abu Khatallah
On September 7, U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper of the District of Columbia issued an opinion in the case of United States v. Abu Khatallah, granting in part and denying in part the Government’... -
Supreme Court Stays Ninth Circuit Order on Refugee Assurances
On Monday, Justice Anthony Kennedy, in his capacity as the Circuit Justice for the Ninth Circuit, stayed a key portion of the Ninth Circuit’s order from last week regarding President Trump’s revised Refu... -
Ninth Circuit Protects Refugees with Assurances of Sponsorship
The Ninth Circuit held in a per curiam order on Thursday (summarized here) that, pending a definitive adjudication on the merits, refugees abroad with sponsorship assurances from U.S. resettlement agenci... -
Government Brief Opposes Bahlul Cert Petition
The Justice Department filed a brief on Wednesday opposing the cert petition in Bahlul v. United States. Counsel for Ali Hamza Suliman al Bahlul filed the cert petition in March to seek review of an Octo... -
Doe v. Hagenbeck: The Second Circuit Speaks on Sexual Assault at West Point
Late last week, the Second Circuit issued a long-awaited opinion in Doe v. Hagenbeck. The case deals with myriad claims brought forward by a former West Point Cadet, Jane Doe, against Lt. Gen. Franklin L... -
International Terrorism Prosecutions: Spring and Summer Wrap-Up
Since President Trump fired Jim Comey as FBI director, the FBI has received quite a bit of attention. More than 19.5 million people tuned in to watch former director Comey testify before the Senate Intel... -
Last Week in Military Commissions
The military commissions were busy last week in the case against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid bin Attash, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Ammar al-Baluchi (referred to as Aziz Ali), and Mustafa Ahmad al Hawsawi, co...
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