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In response to the government's brief, counsel for the Plaintiffs in Al Laithi v. Rumsfeld et. al. filed a reply brief on Dec. 18th. (The Plaintiffs---all former Guantanamo detainees---allege various a...
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The second day of Christmas has brought glad tidings for two defendants in the longest-running of all major ATS cases: earlier today, Judge Scheindlin dismissed the last two foreign corporate defendants ...
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The president's statement today upon signing the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act focuses almost exclusively on the provisions related to the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.
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On December 19, a panel of the Ninth Circuit issued a brief order in the long-running Doe v. Nestle case, vacating a September 2010 district court decision dismissing ATS and TVPA claims brought by natio...
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The civil war in Syria has confounded U.S.
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This latest pair of repatriations brings the total number of detainees transferred to eight in 2013. Noor Uthman Muhammed pleaded guilty in a military commission in 2011, and has since completed his sent...
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The Washington Post had an important story yesterday involving the future of the 53 military detainees who remain in U.S.
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That is the title of a recent essay in International Security by Lucas Kello, a post-doctoral fellow at the Kennedy School at Harvard. The essay is a rare effort to understand how international relation...
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The two detainees, Saad Muhammad Husayn Qahtani and Hamood Abdull Hamood, are both Saudi nationals, and were transferred to the Saudi government. A total of six Guantanamo detainees have been transferred...
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China’s declaration of an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) in the East China Sea on November 23 confounded many observers, including veteran China-watchers. The move alarmed China’s neighbors and w...
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The White House today released a "Report Consistent with the War Powers Resolution," concerning deployments of U.S. force equipped for combat. Nothing too exciting or novel here, on first glance at least...
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On Wednesday, the Solicitor General filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to grant, vacate, and remand (“GVR”) the Samantar case to the Fourth Circuit after that Circuit’s surprising decision la...