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In Re: Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation

1:08-mc-00442 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 2, 2008

Case Ongoing

After the U.S. opened a military prison at Guantanamo Bay in January 2002, hundreds of the 780 men detained as enemy combatants filed petitions for writs of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The detainees alleged that the President of the United States, the Secretary of the Department of Defense, and high-ranking army officials failed to provide evidence that the detainees were enemy combatants, and also failed to advance any justification for the arrest, in…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Baby Doe v. Piehota

1:16-cv-00373 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: April 5, 2016

Closed Date: Sept. 14, 2017

On April 5, 2016, nineteen American Muslim individuals listed in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's ("FBI") Terrorist Screening Database filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS"), the FBI, the Transportation Security Administration ("TSA"), and the Terrorist Screening Center ("TSC"). Represented by the Council on American-Islamic Relations and private counsel, the plaintiffs brought this…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Freedom of the Press Foundation v. U.S. Department of Justice

4:15-cv-03503 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 30, 2015

Closed Date: March 13, 2017

On July 30, 2015, the Freedom of the Press Foundation (a non-profit organization focusing on First Amendment press rights) sued the U.S. Department of Justice in the Northern District of California seeking injunctive relief under the Freedom of Information Act. Plaintiff sought the expedited processing and release of records from the FBI concerning the procedures by which the Bureau issues National Security Letters ("NSLs") and exigent letters to investigate members of the press. Plaintiff beli…
NATIONAL SECURITY
In Re Application of Zayn Al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn (Abu Zubaydah)

02:17-cv-00171 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Filed Date: May 22, 2017

Closed Date: May 3, 2022

This case is focused on Zayn Al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn (aka Abu Zubaydah; “petitioner”) and the international legal effort to hold accountable those believed to have interrogated and tortured him at a CIA “black site” in Poland. Mr. Husayn was also one of many petitioners who filed for a writ of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia while detained at the United States military prison at Guantanamo Bay. For more information on the Guantanamo Bay detainees’ habeas …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Coe v. Biden

3:21-cv-00168 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: July 1, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the Biden administration’s policies and protocols for the deportation of undocumented individuals. On July 1, 2021, the plaintiffs—including seven Texas counties and a nonprofit association of federal police officers—filed this lawsuit in the Southern Division of Texas. The counties sued President Biden, the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, under the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”), th…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation v. Department of Justice

3:19-cv-00290 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 17, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a case about transparency into government surveillance. The ACLU (the plaintiffs) sued various branches of the federal government (the defendants) including the Department of Justice, FBI, and Department of Homeland Security for failing to timely produce records related to social media surveillance. The ACLU filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on January 17, 2019. The case was assigned to Judge Edward M. Chen. On May 24, 2018, the ACLU submitted…
NATIONAL SECURITY
United States v. Daher

2:18-cr-20559 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Aug. 14, 2018

Closed Date: Jan. 18, 2022

This is a federal criminal case where the government attempted to introduce evidence obtained through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). On August 14, 2018, two operators of a Detroit gas station were indicted in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan for the crime of defrauding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The defendants allegedly bought SNAP funds from recipients with cash at a discounted price, then fraudulently billed th…
NATIONAL SECURITY
In re Accuracy Concerns Regarding FBI Matters Submitted to the FISC

19-00002 | Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 2019

Case Ongoing

This Clearinghouse entry focuses on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s (FISC) response to revelations of flawed Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant applications against Trump 2016 campaign foreign policy advisor Carter Page. It includes the following dockets: • The FBI Office of the Inspector General “Crossfire Hurricane” Report. This isn’t a docket, but important background information that influenced the FISC’s decisionmaking. • Misc. 19-02 in the FISC For more inf…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Edgar v. Coats

8:19-cv-00985 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: April 2, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is about the government’s prepublication review (PPR) regime which exposed intelligence-agency employees and military personnel to possible sanction if they wrote or spoke about their government service without first obtaining the government’s approval. On April 2, 2019, five former employees of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Department of Defense filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. The…
NATIONAL SECURITY
El Ali v. Barr (Jardaneh v. Barr)

8:18-cv-02415 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2018

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the placement of Muslims on federal terrorist watchlists. The United States government employs various terrorist watchlists to track terror suspects. These watchlists include the FBI's Terrorism Screening Database (TSDB) and the Transportation Security Agency's Quiet Skies program. Twenty Muslims filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland on August 8, 2018. Defendants included a wide variety of federal agency officials, including the U.S. Department of…