TURKMEN v. HASTY

Docket Nos. 13-981, 13-999, 13-1002, 13-1003, 13-1662.

789 F.3d 218 (2015)

Ibrahim TURKMEN, Akhil Sachdeva, Ahmer Iqbal Abbasi, Anser Mehmood, Benamar Benatta, Ahmed Khalifa, Saeed Hammouda, Purna Bajracharya, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, v. Dennis HASTY, former Warden of the Metropolitan Detention Center, Michael Zenk, former Warden of the Metropolitan Detention Center, James Sherman, former Metropolitan Detention Center Associate Warden for Custody, Defendants-Appellants, John Ashcroft, former Attorney General of the United States, Robert Mueller, former Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, James W. Ziglar, former Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Defendants-Cross-Appellees, Salvatore Lopresti, former Metropolitan Detention Center Captain, Joseph Cuciti, former Metropolitan Detention Center Lieutenant, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: June 17, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rachel A. Meeropol , Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, N.Y. ( Michael Winger , Sunita Patel , Baher A. Azmy , Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, N.Y.; Nancy L. Kestenbaum , Jennifer L. Robbins , Joanne SumPing , Covington & Burling LLP, New York, N.Y., on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.

Hugh D. Sandler , Crowell & Moring LLP, New York, N.Y. ( Shari Ross Lahlou , Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant Dennis Hasty.

Joshua C. Klein ( Allan N. Taffet , Kirk L. Brett , Megan E. Uhle , on the brief), Duval & Stachenfeld LLP, New York, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellant Michael Zenk.

Jeffrey A. Lamken , ( Martin V. Totaro , MoloLamken LLP, Debra L. Roth , Julia H. Perkins , Shaw, Bransford & Roth P.C., Washington, D.C., on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant James Sherman.

H. Thomas Byron III , Appellate Attorney, Civil Division ( Stuart F. Delery , Assistant Attorney General, Ronald C. Machen Jr. , United States Attorney, Dana Boente , United States Attorney, Barbara L. Herwig , Appellate Attorney, Civil Division, on the brief), U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Cross-Appellees John Ashcroft and Robert Mueller.

William Alden McDaniel, Jr. , Ballard Spahr LLP, Baltimore, MD, for Defendant-Cross-Appellee James W. Ziglar.

Trina Realmuto , National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, Boston, MA; Mary Kenney , American Immigration Council, Washington, D.C., amici curiae in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.

Before: POOLER, RAGGI, and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.


On September 11, 2001, "19 Arab Muslim hijackers who counted themselves members in good standing of al Qaeda" hijacked four airplanes and killed over 3,000 people on American soil. Ashcroft v. Iqbal (Iqbal), 556 U.S. 662, 682, 129 S.Ct. 1937, 173 L.Ed.2d 868...

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