The plaintiffs have filed their reply in support of their request for a permanent injunction in the case of Hedges v. Obama.

I received the following response from Richard Klingler to my ACSblog post on Monday re: the Al-Aulaqi suit and Bivens, and thought I'd post it in its entirety (below the fold) before replying (also belo...

Over at the ACSblog, I have a guest post up on Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta and Ben's suspicion that the lawsuit will go the way of Arar, Lebron, Doe, and Rasul--with courts holding that there should be no Biven...

This morning, U.S.

As I noted yesterday, the highest court in the U.S. military justice system—the Article I Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (“CAAF”), a circuit-level court with mostly discretionary jurisdiction over...

Last week, security officials unsealed John Kiriakou's consolidated reply - in which the defendant takes on the government's opposition to his motion for a bill of particulars, and his motion to dismiss ...

It's turned out to be a very big news day in national security litigation land... In addition to the extensive coverage of Aulaqi v. Panetta (to which I hope to add some thoughts of my own later tonight)...

As Ben noted last month, Judge Bates recently has shown some interest in possibly moving the Boumediene-at-Bagram case, Al Maqaleh v. Rumsfeld, along toward a resolution.  After several very quiet months...

Get your memo in support here. Government response due on July 23, I hear. The original opinion striking down Section 1021 of the NDAA is available here. And no, I will not be participating in this pan...

I received the following email just now--the first time in my life, and I suspect the last, that I ever been confused with a certain blogger over at Salon.com: From: Lucas Vazquez To: wittes.lawfare@gma...