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It was filed two Mondays ago, evidently, in this long-running detention case; I've only seen the Westlaw version, which interested readers can access here.
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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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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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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 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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This Christmas Eve opinion, authored by Circuit Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson for a three-judge panel composed of Judge Thomas B. Griffith and Senior Circuit Judge Stephen F. Williams, affirms the distri...
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I've only skimmed this unsurprising ruling from the panel, which affirms the district court's dismissal of the detainee's suit against the military commissions' Convening Authority.
From its opening:
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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 military judge ascends the bench at Guantanamo; our proceedings resume, with Walid Bin Attash and Mustafa Al-Hawsawi having absented themselves. Did they do so voluntarily? Yes, according to the pr...
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It's Thursday here at Fort Meade's little CCTV hovel---from which a skeleton crew will observe, remotely and in nearly real time, pre-trial motions proceedings in the 9/11 case.
Look for dispatches thro...
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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.
