Nigeria seems to have just added some state practice to the debate about whether and when an armed conflict exists between a state and a terrorist group.  On Tuesday, the Nigerian Army’s Chief of Staff i...

Published by James Currey (London UK 2011) Reviewed by Tom Porteous

All discovery, all the time.  We move now to AE53, the defense’s motion for the discovery of information about the resources expended by the government in its investigation.   Kammen is up first, and he ...

You probably have been saying to yourself, all morning and afternoon, “when will we ever hear argument on motion AE40, the defense’s request to compel funding for a Yemeni defense investigator?”  Your wa...

Lunch ends, and we return to argue over AE 038 - or, as better known to docket-watchers, the defense’s motion to compel the timely translation of discovery into Arabic. Reyes begins by informing the cour...

Continuing with his discovery blitz, Judge Pohl turns next to AE 044, a defense motion to compel the production of unredacted classified discovery. Lt. Cmdr. Stephen Reyes argues for the defense that th...

Judge Pohl calls the commission back to order at 11:00 am to discuss AE 054 and AE 057--two motions to compel discovery from potential witnesses in Yemen and the U.A.E. At the in-chambers conference, Ju...