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"Does it really matter, from a legal perspective, whether the U.S.
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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...
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Two developments in Hatim et al. v. Obama et al., the D.C. Circuit case regarding JTF-GTMO's detainee access procedures for defense counsel: one, the filing of additional briefing regarding the stay of a...
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The D.C. Circuit today scheduled oral argument in Aamer v. Obama, a Guantanamo hunger strike case. (The court recently refused to the petitioners' request for an emergency injunction against forced-feed...
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In one of the first lower court decisions since the Supreme Court's somewhat opaque decision in Kiobel in June, a court in the Northern District of Alabama last week dismissed a suit brought under the Al...
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Thanks to his "sur-reply", I finally understand the premise of Peter Margulies’s argument—and his amicus brief—in al Bahlul with regard to why the en banc D.C. Circuit can affirm Bahlul’s conspiracy conv...
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That's the essence of yesterday's order from the D.C. Circuit.
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There's a lot to say about Peter Margulies' reply to my and Kevin Heller's criticisms of the "former government officials'" amicus brief in al Bahlul--the military commission appeal currently pending bef...
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In recent posts both on Lawfare and at Opinio Juris, Steve and Kevin Jon Heller (here and here) sharply critiqued the brief that Jim Schoettler and I filed on Thursday for Former
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Raff already flagged yesterday's filing of an amicus brief in support of the government in the Al Bahlul military commission appeal before the en banc D.C. Circuit by "former government officials, former...
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On March 8, 2011, Saeed Bakhouch, an Algerian GTMO detainee also known as Razak Ali, noted an appeal of the District Court’s January 2011 denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Oral argumen...
