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Earlier today, lawyers for Abdullah Bin Omar Al-Hajji moved to dismiss his appeal to the D.C. Circuit voluntarily, and without prejudice.
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Two more amicus briefs were filed, today and yesterday, respectively, in the case of Al-Nashiri v. MacDonald.
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The Wall Street Journal reports (paywall, sorry) that France is considering a slate of new antiterrorism laws, including at least one prevention-oriented measure that appears to track 18 U.S.C.
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This slipped by me on Friday, when I was in Cambridge plotting the next phase of Lawfare's expansion. The D.C. Circuit has issued an unredacted opinion in this case, Ameziane v. Obama, which actually cam...
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Yesterday, we promised to be in attendance during today's argument session in Khairkhwa v. Obama
And this morning, yours truly sat through two standard-issue D.C.
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Anton Metlitsky, counsel in the Appellate practice of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, writes in with the following comments on the Kiobel oral argument. Metlitsky represents the Rio Tinto Group in its pending cer...
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A reminder that tomorrow morning will see argument before the D.C. Circuit in the case of Khairkhwa v. Obama. In short, the case concerns a Taliban functionary who claims to have played a civilian---not...
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Earlier this week, the Supreme Court decided not to review the case of Suleiman v. Obama. No surprise there; the justices hardly seem to wish to wade into detention issues these days.
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So we learn from ABC's Jake Tapper, who in turn quotes from Mark Bowden's forthcoming book, "The Finish," about the bin Laden raid:
If Osama bin Laden had surrendered to the Navy SEALs, President Obama w...
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Today marks the five-month anniversary of the oral arguments before the D.C. Circuit in United States v.
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The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has has just stayed Judge Katherine Forrest's decision in Hedges:
For the following reasons, we conclude that the public interest weighs in favor of granting the gover...
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The D.C. Circuit has handed down procedural orders in two Guantanamo detention cases.
The first grants a joint motion regarding Friday's oral argument in Khairkhwa v. Obama. The argument session will b...
