Serious Surgery Always Causes Pain and Suffering; If a Jury Finds that Defendant's Negligence Created the Need for Surgery, Then an Award That Does Not Include Them is InadequateDodson v. [read post]

., the torture statute; the War Crimes Act; the War Powers Resolution; FISA; the Habeas Act; the UCMJ (upheld in part in Hamdan, over the President's objections that it would impinge on his ability to defeat the enemy); the Boland Amendments; a bunch of statutes at the tail-end of the Vietnam War prohibiting the use of funds for the use of armed forces in particular nations, such as Cambodia); just as numerous other statutes have authorized hostilities only for certain purposes and on… [read post]