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...

Chris Hedges yesterday put out this op-ed about the case bearing his name---in which, as doubtless you know by now, a district judge recently enjoined the enforcement of Section 1021(b)(2) of the NDAA.  ...

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 ...

Several weeks ago I noted that Iran had announced its intention to sue the developers of the Stuxnet virus.  As I said, it was an almost perfect Lawfare type question -- in what court? under what theorie...

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.

Last week, Stewart Baker at Skating on Stilts described the leaked draft Executive Order on Cybersecurity (which he had not seen) as "focused."  Maybe so, but at 19 pages it seems rather less so to me.  ...

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...

Lawfare reader Col. Fritz Barth USMCR (ret.) writes in with this comment on the SCI nondisclosure obligations of Matthew Bissonnette, author of No Easy Day: There is one additional element of Bissonette'...

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].