Three Guantanamo detainees filed their opening brief yesterday in Aamer v. Obama. Shaker Aamer, Nabil Hadjarab and Ahmed Belbacha are appealing the D.C. District Court’s denial of their motions for a pre...

Here's the New York Times reporter's petition for rehearing en banc in the case of United States v. Sterling.   It was filed yesterday. Readers will recall that last month a three-judge panel of the Fou...

Two amicus briefs were delivered today in the en banc phase of GTMO detainee Ali Hamza Ahmad Suleiman Al-Bahlul's appeal to the D.C. Circuit. The accused, as readers well know, was convicted by a militar...

The order entering the stay, by Circuit Judges Rogers, Brown, and Kavanaugh, is here.  It essentially pauses enforcement of last week's order, by Judge Royce Lamberth, that partially invalidated certain ...

It already had been quite a week in the GTMO habeas world.

A pretty strong signal from Judge Gladys Kessler, who today rejected GTMO detainee Jihad Dhiab's motion for a preliminary injunction to stop force feeding.

Earlier this week Ben posted on a motion, brought by a group of Guantanamo detainees and asking the District Court to preliminarily enjoin force-feeding at the detention facility.  The court ordered the ...

The Miami Herald has obtained under the Freedom of Information Act the list of dispositions for Guantanamo detainees from the Obama administration's Guantanamo task force.

Last Friday the government filed this brief in CA2  in the NYT’s and ACLU’s appeal in the case involving FOIA requests  on targeted killing.

The House Armed Services Committee was hard at work marking up the National Defense Authorization Act for the upcoming fiscal year. We have a transcript of the debate over Democratic Congressman Adam Smi...

Christof Heyns, the UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings and other bad stuff has issued a statement reiterating his call for a "moratorium" on the use of lethal autonomous robots.

Here it is.  Filed with the brief were two appendices, the first of which is here.