IN RE IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN DETAINEES LITIGATION

Nos. 06-0145 (TFH), CIV. 05-1377(TFH) to CIV. 05-1380(TFH).

479 F.Supp.2d 85 (2007)

In re: IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN DETAINEES LITIGATION This document relates to: Ali v. Pappas Ali v. Rumsfeld Ali v. Karpinski Ali v. Sanchez.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

March 27, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lucas Guttentag, Cecillia D. Wang, Jennifer C. Chang, Monica M. Ramirez, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Immigrants' Rights Project, San Francisco, CA, Steven R. Shapiro, Amrit Singh, Omar C. Jadwat, Steven Watt, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, Michael H. Posner, Hina Shamsi, Priti N. Patel, Law & Security Program, Human Rights First, New York, NY, Arthur B. Spitzer, American Civil Liberties Union, Washington, DC, Bill Lann Lee, Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker & Jackson, P.C., Oakland, CA, Paul L. Hoffman, Schonbrun Desimone Seplow Harris & Hoffman, Venice, CA, Chimene I. Keitner, Nirej S. Sekhon, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP, San Francisco, CA, David Rudovsky, Kairys, Rudovsky, Epstein & Messing LLP, Philadelphia, PA, Erwin Chemerinsky, Duke University School of Law, Durham, NC, Deborah N. Pearlstein, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, NJ, for Plaintiffs.

Marcus Meeks, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Defendant Rumsfeld; Stephen L. Braga, Mark Thomas Stancil, Ryan E. Bull, Joshua Klein, Baker Botts L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Defendant Sanchez, Michael L. Martinez, Aryeh S. Portnoy, David E. Bell, Matthew F. Scarlato, Rhonda M. Galaz, Crowell & Moring, LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendant Karpinski, Mark E. Nagle, Tracy P. Varghese, Eileen Moorhead, Troutman Sanders, LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendant Pappas.

Sidney Samuel Rosdeitcher, Douglas M. Pravda, Carmen K. Cheung, Judd S. Harvey, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York, NY, James J. Silk, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, for Amici Curiae.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

THOMAS F. HOGAN, Chief Judge.

This is a lamentable case in which the Court has been called upon to determine whether the plaintiffs may pursue monetary damages and declaratory relief against the former Secretary of Defense and other high-ranking military officers who the plaintiffs allege are liable for torture and abuse inflicted on them while detained by the United States military during ongoing hostilities in Iraq and Afghanistan...

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