Judge Walton has released his unclassified opinion in Karim Bostan (ISN 975) v. Obama, denying Bostan's habeas petition (the decisions appears to have issued in classified form on October 12th). The gove...

Oral arguments in Lebron v. Rumsfeld took place before the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday.

I posted a few days ago regarding the Mehanna prosecution, noting that the defense requested a jury instruction on First Amendment issues.  It turns out this was a request for three preliminary instructi...

Judge Lamberth has granted a joint motion by Sharqawi Abdu ali Al-Hajj (ISN 1457) and the government to dismiss al-Hajj’s habeas petition, without prejudice.  The one-page order is here.  For prior cover...

Musa'ab Omar Al-Madhwani, a Guantanamo habeas petitioner, has filed a cert petition seeking review of the DC Circuit opinion affirming his detention.

On October 12th, Judge Walton denied habeas relief to GTMO detainee Abdul Qader Ahmed Hussein (ISN 690), and the 22-page unclassified opinion is now available here. I don't think the opinion breaks any ...

One of the interesting things about 18 USC 2339B (the 1996 material support law) and

An important case gets underway tomorrow in Boston: the civilian criminal prosecution of Tarek Mehanna, charged with an array of offenses stemming from allegations that he traveled to Yemen in 2004 in an...

Tomorrow, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit will hear oral arguments in Lebron v. Rumsfeld, in which Jose Padilla and his mother, Estella Lebron, appeal a district court's dismissal of a B...

I'm afraid I owe Lawfare readers an apology. Because of a calendar foul-up, I missed yesterday's D.C. Circuit argument in Alsabri v. Obama, a Guantanamo habeas case--nor did I write an oral argument prev...