Legal Opinion
Jose Padilla v. John Yoo
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 2, 2012No. 09-16478PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FISHER, Circuit Judge:
After the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, the government detained Jose Padilla, an American citizen, as an enemy combatant. Padilla alleges that he was held incommunicado in military detention, subjected to coercive interrogation techniques and detained under harsh conditions of confinement, all in violation of his constitutional and statutory rights. In this lawsuit, plaintiffs Padilla and his mother, Estela Lebrón, seek to hold defendant John Yoo, who was the Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal…
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