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... legal challenges by individuals held abroad in U.S. military custody. In a petition for review in Geren v. Omar (not yet assigned a docket number), the Justice Department said ... and an already-pending case by another citizen detainee in Iraq, Munaf v. Geren (docket 06-1666), filed on June 13. Besides filing a petition in the Omar ... respondent to be tried before the Iraqi courts." The appeal is filed on behalf of Army Secretary Pete Geren, and two American military officers, Major Gen. William H. ...

In DeJesus v. Pete Geren, Acting Secretary of the Army, No. 3:08cv0043, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 48870 (M.D.Tenn. June 23, 2008), Dorthy DeJesus, a civilian employee of the United States Army, sued her employer alleging that she was impermissibly denied FMLA leave. The court granted the Army's motion to dismiss the claim. The court reasoned that, as a federal employee, DeJesus was covered by Title II of the FMLA, not Title I. Title I, the court found, specifically excluded ...

... generals gathered at a hotel in Alexandria, Va., for a mandatory, weeklong summit devoted to combating the crime. In a Sept. 22 essay in Army Times, Army Secretary Pete Geren and Gen. George Casey, the service's chief of staff, said it was "repugnant to everything a soldier stands for" and promised a "zero tolerance" policy for harassment or assault. The approach comes in direct response to a batch of new Pentagon data indicating ...

... between April 1986 and January 1987, while he was stationed at Fort Bragg. He was convicted of murdering two women. President Bush approved Gray's execution in July, and a month later Army Secretary Pete Geren set the execution date and ordered that Gray be put to death by injection. The date was publicly released Thursday. "The Army is moving forward with plans to fulfill the court-martial sentence," said Army spokesman Lt. Col. George ...

... recently, the US Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision on 12 June 2008 in the case of Munaf et Al. v. Geren, Secretary Of The Army, et al., 553 U.S.___ (2008). That case upheld basic legal rights for Americans held abroad by ... pass judgment on its legitimacy seems at least as great an intrusion as the plainly barred collateral review of foreign convictions." (See Yost, Pete, Court rules against 2 US citizens in Iraq, Washington Post, 12 June 2008). Perhaps of even greater significance to ...