So writes the D.C. Circuit in this terse per curiam order.  It was issued Monday. Al Warafi, a Yemeni detainee, had claimed in the District Court that he had not joined the Taliban, but instead worked o...

Human rights advocates often express disappointment (if not anger) that the U.S. Government (and the Obama Administration in particular) is not more supportive of lawsuits in U.S.

The Second Circuit today held that the ATS claims against Ford, Daimler, and IBM  -- the three remaining defendants in the decade-long litigation against more than fifty companies for allegedly aiding an...

Raha Wala of Human Rights First has written in with an in-depth response, printed below in full, to my post the other day expressing disappointment in Senators Durbin and Feinstein’s op-ed on closing Gua...

Yesterday, Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Adnan Ajam filed a motion for partial summary judgment and for declaratory relief in his habeas suit before the D.C.

I find myself sympathetic to both Carrie and Steve on FISA oversight.

Last Tuesday, Judge Vitaliano of the Eastern District of New York dismissed a FOIA suit seeking access to NSC records about the drone program.

Earlier today, the government filed its response to Guantanamo detainee Mukhtar Yahia Naji al Warafi's petition for rehearing en banc before the D.C.

Some interesting terrorism-prosecution developments over the past few days that are worth noting. United States v. Mohammed (S.D. Fla.) First, a pair of men (one leaving in Kenya, and the other--who hap...

Monday's ruling in United States v.