Today the D.C. Circuit handed down its decision in the "counsel access" case, upholding the constitutionality of security procedures instituted at Guantanamo in 2012 and 2013.

Here is the panel's opinion in Hatim v. Obama, which opens: GRIFFITH, Circuit Judge: Guantanamo Bay detainees challenge two new policies they claim place an undue burden on their ability to meet with the...

The Guantanamo cases have nothing on this opinion from the 7th Circuit in the Daoud case. (hat tip: Josh Blackman)

The Washington Post reports of a new ruling from the military judge yesterday---which I have yet to see, and which isn't yet available on the military commissions' website.  The gist: A military judge ru...

The European Court of Human Rights ("ECHR") today handed down a pair of judgments in long-running human rights cases brought against Poland by two U.S. terrorism detainees---Abu Zubaydah and Abd Al Rahim...

This time it's Mohammad Rimi, transferred to Libya back in 2006. The judge is Richard Leon. Here's the opinion. Here's the order.

Over at the Intercept, Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux have this piece on the NCTC's guidelines for adding citizens and foreigners to terrorism watchlists.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has denied Djamel Ameziane's petition for habeas relief and granted the government's motion to dismiss in Amezaine v.

This morning, Marty Lederman and I have posted a detailed analysis of Monday’s en banc D.C. Circuit decision in al Bahlul—and what it portends for the future of military commissions, especially with resp...

Steve says of yesterday’s Bahlul decision.

This morning, the full D.C. Circuit resolved military commission defendant Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al-Bahlul’s’s long-running appeal, in split fashion: by rejecting al Bahlul’s challenge to his conspirac...

As readers of this blog will know, after the Second Circuit released a redacted copy of the OLC’s “drone memo,” those of us who represent Omar Khadr filed a motion with the U.S.