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23 Feb 2017, 9:59 am
Sabrina De Sousa, who holds dual American and Portuguese citizenship and moved to Portugal in 2015, was one of 26 Americans convicted in absentia by the Italian judicial system for the 2003 extraordinary rendition of Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar. [read post]
22 Mar 2013, 1:12 pm
Because jurisdiction – and thus, the jurisdictional amount – is determined “as of the time [the action] was filed in state court,” id. at *4, the Court held that the insurgents were subject to extraordinary rendition to Cafastan, where their own claims might be subject to decapitation by stipulation, but not those of absent class members:[T]he stipulation at issue here can tie [plaintiff’s] hands, but it does not resolve the… [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 7:23 am
President Bush said he wanted Osama bin Laden "dead or alive," setting a tone for the war on terror which eschewed law and justice for extraordinary rendition, torture, wiretapping and, finally, assassination. [read post]
26 May 2007, 12:37 pm
We are asked to consider providing advice to the new American president who will be sworn in on January 20, 2009. [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 12:31 am
APPGER and extraordinary rendition Panopticon has blogged on the First Tier Tribunal’s decision on the set of requests made by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition (“APPGER”) to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office: APPGER v Information Commissioner and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office EA/2011/0049-0051. [read post]
7 Nov 2013, 10:23 am
Petitioner-respondent mother on this appeal claims that the order of Special Term was a proper exercise of judicial power under the facts and circumstances of the case and further that appellant does not come before this court with clean hands because, contrary to Special Term's direction following the oral rendition of the order under appeal and the specific admonitions of the court, the father removed the boy from New York State and transported him to California where he now resides. [read post]
31 May 2011, 9:18 am
As if to make the point, the Supreme Court recently offered a post-legal ruling for our moment: it declined to review a lower court ruling that blocked a case in which five men, who had experienced extraordinary rendition (a fancy globalized version of kidnapping) and been turned over to torturing regimes elsewhere by the CIA, tried to get their day in court. [read post]
19 Feb 2013, 10:20 am
The Times’s Editorial Board discusses the Open Society Justice Initiative’s report released last week on the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program. [read post]
10 Feb 2011, 10:15 am
s most generally recognized in the rest of the world as the coordinator of the extraordinary rendition program. [read post]
20 Feb 2012, 12:39 am
Licence to kill Also from the Guardian, an article discussing the civil proceedings being brought by the families of those of Libyan dissidents against Sir Mark Allen, the former head of counter-terrorism at MI6, accusing him of complicity in their extraordinary rendition, torture and inhuman and degrading treatment (proceedings against the government, MI6 and MI5 are to follow). [read post]
2 Aug 2009, 9:47 am
The string orchestra created vistas of extraordinary beauty with Britten's orchestration. [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 11:00 am
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]
1 Jul 2009, 7:25 am
I'm eager to hear what the extraordinary Canadian pianist, Marc-Andre Hamelin, has to say in Gershwin. [read post]
16 Nov 2010, 6:30 am
Copyright by creating a digital rendition of the store. [read post]
1 Dec 2010, 1:14 pm
I would add one important failing to this list—one almost never discussed, as I found in four years of working on my new book about extraordinary rendition and torture, A Kidnapping in Milan: The CIA on Trial. [read post]
27 May 2007, 11:16 am
Maybe I'm wrong about that; in some respects I hope I am.Fourth: As with Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary renditions, secret prisons, and approved torture, the DOJ scandals show again that our courts are all-but-helpless to do anything about genuine abuses by the executive branch. [read post]
17 Mar 2011, 11:59 am
These end runs included public private cooperation in surveillance and exchange of information, expansion of the state secrets doctrine, expansion of administrative warrants and national security letters, a system of preventive detention, expanded use of military prisons, extraordinary rendition to other countries, and aggressive interrogation techniques outside of those countenanced by the traditional laws of war.The reasons for the creation of the national surveillance state were… [read post]
21 Feb 2013, 4:33 am
…Goes well with the Maisto Extraordinary Rendition playset The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has gotten some funny shots in. [read post]
14 May 2010, 8:13 am
Finally, in non-nomination news, the Associated Press reports that the Obama administration filed papers Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by a victim of the government’s extraordinary rendition program, who was mistakenly sent to Syria, where he claims he was tortured. [read post]
4 May 2010, 6:30 pm
The middle portions of the book describe the experience of the lawyers in the extraordinary circumstances in which they found themselves, and in particular the various legal, bureaucratic and practical barriers that they faced in representing their clients. [read post]
