David Remes, an attorney representing Guantanamo detainees--and, in particular, co-counsel for the petitioner in Hatim--writes in with this comment on Friday's ruling in that case from the D.C. Circuit: ...

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)

While Lawfare readers have been focused on other parts of the world, federal appellate courts have recently issued two significant, and potentially conflicting (in result, if not reasoning), decisions in...

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 release last month of the Al-Aulaqi Office of Legal Counsel memo, it turns out, was not the end of the Second Circuit litigation regarding the New York Times and ACLU’s FOIA requests for information ...

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.

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.

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...