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Last week we mentioned that the D.C. Circuit Court had affirmed the District Court's decision in Mashur Abdullah Muqbel Alsabri's habeas corpus case. It looked as though the Court was holding off on publ...
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Tomorrow morning, a panel of three judges from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (Chief Judge Sentelle along with Circuit Judges Ginsburg and Kavanaugh) will hear ar...
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I don't think today's Ninth Circuit decision throwing out Jose Padilla's damages suit against John Yoo is particularly surprising--notwithstanding the typical (albeit utterly and alarmingly inaccurate) t...
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The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a district court decision allowing Jose Padilla to sue John Yoo. Writing for a unanimous panel consisting of himself, 9th Circuit Judge N. Randy Smith, and R...
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The government's opposition to cert in Latif is now public. The government argues that "The decision of the Court of Appeals is correct and does not conflict with any decision of this Court or any other ...
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This is an interesting issue I have not yet seen before in a Guantanamo habeas case. Some time back, a detainee named Abdu Al-Qader Hussain Al-Mudafari filed a motion to dismiss his habeas petition witho...
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Wells and Larkin have a more comprehensive preview in the works for Thursday's oral argument before the D.C. Circuit in Hamdan v. United States, and I'd encourage folks to wait for their contribution to ...
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John Brennan's speech yesterday was important for at least three reasons: (1) it marked the first official White House acknowledgment that “the United States Government conducts targeted strikes against ...
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I have a longer preview of Thursday's D.C. Circuit argument in Hamdan in the works, but wanted to jump in to offer a couple of quick thoughts on the (surprising) argument order issued by the panel today ...
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Last October, I wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post entitled “Will Drone Strikes Become Obama’s Guantanamo?” in which I said that “the administration needs to work harder to explain and defend its use ...
