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I have written extensively on the D.C.
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The D.C. Circuit has released a less-redacted version of its Latif opinion. I haven't read it yet, but the D.C. Circuit Review web site has and notes that the new version offers significantly more inform...
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The D.C. Circuit Court has affirmed the judgment of the District Court in Alsabri v. Obama.
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A few weeks back we noted that Ali Hamza Ahmad al Bahlul filed his petitioner brief in the D.C. Circuit Court in his appeal from the military commission's judgment and sentence against him. Now comes his...
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Defense counsel for the five alleged 9/11 co-conspirators have filed several motions challenging the closed-door nature of some military commission proceedings.
Although the filings haven't been releas...
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Late yesterday, the House sponsors of the CISPA cybersecurity legislation (to be considered tomorrow) announced a series of amendments to the bill intended to address some of the concerns advanced by pri...
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Yesterday, Jack posed the question of what ever happened to the periodic review process that President Obama had ordered for long-term detention review at Guantanamo Bay. "I have heard little about these...
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This is going to be the shortest oral argument summary ever. In fact, I can do it in five sentences:
(1) Chief Judge David Sentelle opens the hearing by announcing that it can't be held in open session ...
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Tomorrow morning, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in Obaydullah v. Obama, one of the few Guantanamo habeas cases that's still moving in the lower courts. There was a time, not ...
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In March 2011, the Obama administration issued an Executive Order (13567) that created a process of Periodic Review of Individuals Detained at Guantánamo Bay Naval Station Pursuant to the Authorization f...
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Professor Jonathan Hafetz (Seton Hall) writes in with the following response to my critique of the qualified immunity ruling in Hamad v. Gates. My thoughts in reply appear at the bottom. Jonathan write...
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David Cole and Peter Margulies both have more to say on the Tarek Mehanna case. Their exchange convinces me that the merits of this First Amendment case are enormously fact-dependent.
