Ex-Guantanamo detainees torture lawsuit ruling [DC Circuit]

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Ex-Guantanamo detainees torture lawsuit ruling [DC Circuit]

January 11, 2008 05:05:00 pm

Shafiq Rasul et al. v. Richard Myers, Air Force General et al., January 11, 2008 [ruling that four former Guantanamo Bay detainees – all UK citizens – do not have the right to sue high-ranking US government officials for alleged torture and infringement of religious practice during their captivity]. Read the full text of the opinion [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

THIS DAY @ LAW

Supreme Court upheld wartime detention of Japanese-Americans

On December 18, 1944, the US Supreme Court decided Korematsu v. United States, upholding the wartime relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps. Read Executive Order 9066, issued by President Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, under which the internments were authorized. View photos from the Japanese American internment camps, collected by the University of Utah Library.

International Migrants Day

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