Based on the voluminous media and blog coverage of last week's decision in Hedges v. Obama, in which Judge Forrest permanently enjoined at least part of the detention provision of the FY2012 NDAA [sectio...

Circuit judge Raymond Lohier has granted the Justice Department's request for an interim stay of the permanent injunction in Hedges, pending the Second Circuit's consideration of the government's motion ...

Obaydullah, a Guantanamo detainee, today asked the D.C. Circuit to take up his case once more. A three judge panel of that court earlier affirmed the denial of Obaydullah's petition for a writ of habeas...

More on the government's ongoing effort to stay the district court's entry of permanent injunctive relief in Hedges v. Obama: it appears that the government's initial motion before Judge Forrest was for ...

On September 7, the Justice Department filed a Suggestion of Immunity on behalf of former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo in a suit against Zedillo under the Alien Tort Statute and Torture Victim Prote...

That's the read out from yesterday, in the Hedges case. Here's the government's interim request to Judge Forrest, to stay her permanent injunction during the government's appeal to the Second Circuit.

David Remes---who, in addition to representing several Guantanamo detainees, is a member of the plaintiffs' legal team in Hedges v. Obama---sent in this note yesterday: The debate on this blog about Jud...

Raha Wala of Human Rights First writes in with the following response to my comments on Hedges. My thoughts follow his critique and very-cautious defense of Judge Forrest: Ben’s post on Judge Forrest’s o...

Well that sure didn't take long [h/t: emptywheel].

An attorney who was deeply involved in the Al Bihani litigation sent me the following note about my post on the Hedges decision:

There are a lot of questions one could ask about yesterday’s order in Hedges, to put it mildly.  I’ll limit myself to this one: exactly what is the scope of Judge Forrest’s permanent injunction?  (Steve ...

I don't have a lot to add to Ben's analysis of Judge Forrest's decision yesterday in Hedges v.