Ben earlier noted an order, in which Judge John Bates instructed petitioners in Al Maqleh v. Obama to file, by no later than today, a "short summary, not to exceed two pages," of any newly discovered fac...

Back in July, I noted that the Electronic Privacy and Information Center had petitioned the D.C.

Earlier today, Judge Rosemary Collyer rejected an attempt by attorneys for detainee Mohammed al Qahtani to modify two protective orders entered in al Qahtani's habeas case. The proposed modification con...

I'm happy to report that I've recently completed drafting an article that has been much on my mind for the past few years.  Beyond the Battlefield, Beyond al Qaeda: The Destabilizing Legal Architecture o...

U.S. District Judge John Bates has entered the following order in Maqaleh, the case testing federal court habeas jurisdiction for detainees at Bagram: MINUTE ORDER: The Court has received 81 petitioners'...

Jonathan Witmer-Rich sends in the following commentary on the Amawi case, which I posted yesterday: Just wanted to offer a bit of commentary on U.S. v. Amawi, which you flagged on the Lawfare blog . . . .

The government has just posted a memorandum from March 12, 1945 in the Bahlul docket concerning the question of whether participation in a conspiracy to commit an offense against the law of war is punish...

Haven’t read this yet, but U.S. v. Amawi, which came down yesterday, looks pretty interesting. The opinion is by Judge Danny Boggs, and while the disposition was unanimous, one of the judges wrote separa...

Last week, D.C.

Ben beat me to it, but this morning, the D.C Circuit issued a terse order removing United States v.

This is interesting. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has just entered the following docket order in the military commission appeal of Ali Hamza Ahmad al Bahlul: CLERK'S ORDER filed . . . , on the cou...