Rasul

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled today (pdf) that four British men who say they were tortured while imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay have no right to seek damages from U.S. government officials.
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the ten other senior military officials named in the lawsuit have immunity, the [...]

Following up on my post yesterday about the Obama administration’s court filing in the case of Rasul v. Rumsfeld — in which four British former prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are seeking damages for being tortured, humiliated, abused and indefinitely detained without charge or access to counsel — SCOTUSblog today points to a few key points [...]

As Adam Liptak wrote in The New York Times on Saturday, the President-elect Barack Obama’s Justice Department is going to have to quickly figure out what positions it will take in some thorny legal cases involving the indefinite detention and torture of “war on terror” detainees.
The Al-Marri case Liptak writes about, and which I’ve been [...]

The US Supreme Court this morning granted certiorari in the case of Rasul v. Rumsfeld, Myers, et al., the first case in which plaintiffs who claim they were illegally detained, tortured and humiliated at Guantanamo Bay before they were released without charge have claimed civil damages against US officials. Instead of reviewing the case itself, [...]