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22 Feb 2010, 9:41 am by Carrie Schimizzi
[JURIST] Two human rights groups released documents [text, PDF] Monday confirming that planes associated with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) extraordinary rendition program [JURIST news archive] landed in Poland on six occasions in 2003. [read post]
10 Feb 2010, 5:52 pm by constitutional lawblogger
A three-judge panel of the British Court of Appeal today ordered the release of a seven-paragraph summary of U.S. intelligence information about the treatment of Binyam Mohamed, the detainee who was subject to extraordinary rendition, torture, and detention at Guantanamo... [read post]
10 Feb 2010, 2:19 pm by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
Jeppesen, charges that Jeppesen, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Boeing Aerospace company, knowingly participated in the CIA's forced disappearance and torture of Mohamed and four other men through the provision of critical flight planning and logistical support services to the aircraft and crews used by the CIA in its "extraordinary rendition" program. [read post]
3 Feb 2010, 6:47 am by Anna Christensen
Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen who was detained in 2002 under the U.S. government’s “extraordinary rendition” program and then deported to Syria, where he was held and allegedly tortured for a year, has filed a petition for certiorari, the AFP reported yesterday. [read post]
20 Jan 2010, 12:43 pm by Trey Childress
For the conflicts afficionados, 2009 brought many noteworthy developments, including the enactment of the second choice-of-law codification for tort conflicts in the United States, and a plethora of interesting cases, such as the following: - Several cases brought under the Alien Torts Statute (ATS) involving human rights abuses in foreign sites, including Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, one case denying a Bivens remedy to a victim of “extraordinary rendition,” and one… [read post]
6 Jan 2010, 3:47 am by Lawrence Solum
For the conflicts afficionados, 2009 brought many noteworthy developments, including the enactment of the second choice-of-law codification for tort conflicts in the United States, and a plethora of interesting cases, such as the following: - Several cases brought under the Alien Torts Statute (ATS) involving human rights abuses in foreign sites, including Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, one case denying a Bivens remedy to a victim of “extraordinary rendition,” and… [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 11:00 am by Caleb Mason
    In sum, Horwitz’s model requires us to balance the danger of certain executive-branch misconduct (torture and extraordinary rendition, if we take the existing potential cases) against other executive-branch misconduct (retributive political show trials). [read post]
16 Dec 2009, 1:35 am
"A group of MPs is suing the CIA in the American courts in an attempt to force the agency to hand over information about Britain's secret involvement in its extraordinary rendition programme. [read post]
15 Dec 2009, 11:15 am
"It is no longer credible to claim that extraordinary rendition is a state secret. [read post]
11 Dec 2009, 8:18 am by Jacob Katz Cogan
: The Progress of the Duch Trial at the ECCC Francesco Messineo 'Extraordinary Renditions' and State Obligations to Criminalize and Prosecute Torture in the Light of the Abu Omar Case in Italy National Prosecution of International Crimes: Cases and Legislation Nehal C. [read post]
10 Dec 2009, 11:36 am
In 2007, we sued Jeppesen for its role in the Bush administration's unlawful extraordinary rendition program. [read post]
4 Dec 2009, 10:19 am
It also examines the relationship between the Alien Tort Statute and two issues which have received particular attention during the Bush administration: the use of torture by United States officials and the practice of extraordinary rendition. [read post]
17 Nov 2009, 12:36 am by Gilles Cuniberti
It was alleged that this act of "extraordinary rendition" was carried out by a team of CIA agents with the collaboration of Italian intelligence agency (…) This case is of interest because it appears to be the first conviction of government agents alleged to be involved in the extraordinary rendition programme. [read post]
15 Nov 2009, 8:05 am
/**/ I kicked off a recent Thanksgiving holiday season by having an argument with my friend and neighbor the rocket scientist about extraordinary rendition and the effect of immigrant workers on the economy. [read post]
12 Nov 2009, 6:33 am
Ashcroft, a case about the extraordinary rendition of a Syrian-born Canadian citizen based on false information. [read post]
11 Nov 2009, 2:04 am
To “decide how to implement extraordinary rendition,” he wrote, is “for the elected members of Congress â€" and not for us as judges. [read post]
9 Nov 2009, 3:47 am
The Second Circuit en banc refuses to recognize a Bivens claim in extraordinary rendition cases where Congress has not spoken. [read post]
6 Nov 2009, 9:10 pm
This week saw two contrasting results emerging from courts in the United States and Italy regarding extraordinary rendition:ââ [read post]