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[This is the first of two posts concerning the ICTY's Gotovina decision (the ICTY summary of which appears here, and two volumes of trial documents are available here]
Professor Laurie Blank, Director o...
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The Blog of Legal Times tells us that the Department of Justice has "filed court papers Wednesday in a public records suit in Washington asking U.S.
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No big surprise here: The D.C. Circuit has affirmed the judgment of the District Court in upholding the detention of Guantanamo detainee Abdul-Rahman Abdo Abulghaith Suleiman's appeal.
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The government has filed its opposition to cert in the case of Al Madhwani v. Obama--a Guantanamo habeas case. Al Madhwani's cert petition seeks review of this DC Circuit opinion affirming his detention.
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Tomorrow morning, the en banc Fourth Circuit will hear oral argument in the two Abu Ghraib/contractor preemption cases about which we've blogged previously.
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My earlier post prompted the following reply from Cully Stimson, whom I thank for sending such a thoughtful response, and which I think it only fair to post in its entirety:
My friend Steve Vladeck takes...
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Further to the ongoing exchange (begun on Salon and continued on this blog here and here) between Laura Pitter from Human Rights Watch and Ben on the fairness vel non of the al-Nashiri military commissio...
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I don't normally agree on detention policy matters with Seton Hall's Mark Denbeaux--and there's certainly some rhetoric in this piece in Jurist that I would never use and conclusions I do not reach. That...
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Let's start with the Aghanistan news. There has been another suicide bombing in Helmand province, signifying the Taliban's continued unwillingness to negotiate with the United States and causing three de...
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For all D.C. readers, this upcoming event at Georgetown University Law Center may be of interest.
The Georgetown Center on
National Security and the Law
Cordially invites you to a critical discussion of ...
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The New York Times reports on NYPD police commissoner Raymond Kelly's decision to personally cooperate with the prooducers of "The Third Jihad," an anti-Muslim film that drew "angry condemnation from Mus...
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As Jack and Steve have both noted, yesterday the Fourth Circuit issued its opinion in Lebron v. Rumsfeld, the appeal seeking reversal of a district court's decision denying Jose Padilla declaratory and e...
