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As Raffaela previously noted, the case of Abdullah v. Obama is an exercise in "heel dragging and losing arguments." A brief refresher on the case: the legal saga started when Guantanamo detainee Hani Sal...
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Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT), which operates under the name Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD), is both an important and misunderstood terrorist group. LeT grabbed world attention in 2008, when its operatives attacked hotel...
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The following guest post is from Professor Jeffrey Kahn of SMU Law. Jeff is the author of Mrs. Shipley's Ghost: The Right to Travel and Terrorist Watchlists, a terrific book recently published by Univer...
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Shortly before Christmas, counsel for Guantanamo detainee Mukhtar Yahia Naji Al Warafi filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in his habeas petition, having been denied earlier this year an en banc re...
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When President Obama signed the NDAA of 2014 yesterday, the Act did not include the amendment to the Anti-Terrorism Act, about which I posted earlier this month that would have allowed suits by non-US na...
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In response to the government's brief, counsel for the Plaintiffs in Al Laithi v. Rumsfeld et. al. filed a reply brief on Dec. 18th. (The Plaintiffs---all former Guantanamo detainees---allege various a...
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The second day of Christmas has brought glad tidings for two defendants in the longest-running of all major ATS cases: earlier today, Judge Scheindlin dismissed the last two foreign corporate defendants ...
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The president's statement today upon signing the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act focuses almost exclusively on the provisions related to the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.
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On December 19, a panel of the Ninth Circuit issued a brief order in the long-running Doe v. Nestle case, vacating a September 2010 district court decision dismissing ATS and TVPA claims brought by natio...
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The civil war in Syria has confounded U.S.
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This latest pair of repatriations brings the total number of detainees transferred to eight in 2013. Noor Uthman Muhammed pleaded guilty in a military commission in 2011, and has since completed his sent...
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The Washington Post had an important story yesterday involving the future of the 53 military detainees who remain in U.S.
