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DCCA on Force-Feeding: No Emergency Injunction Pending Appeal

Wells Bennett
Tuesday, July 30, 2013, 10:30 AM
That's the essence of yesterday's order from the D.C. Circuit.
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That's the essence of yesterday's order from the D.C. Circuit.  According to the court---Circuit Judges Henderson, Brown, and Kavanaugh---the petitioners had "not satisfied the stringent requirements for an injunction pending appeal." The two-page ruling also sets a briefing schedule on petitioners' appeal from a district court order denying their bid for preliminary relief against force-feeding at GTMO.
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Wells C. Bennett was Managing Editor of Lawfare and a Fellow in National Security Law at the Brookings Institution. Before coming to Brookings, he was an Associate at Arnold & Porter LLP.
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