Legal Opinion

Al-Kidd v. Ashcroft

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided September 4, 2009No. 06-36059PublishedCited by 202 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by Judge MILAN D. SMITH, JR. Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge BEA. ■

MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judge:

According to the allegations of his first amended complaint, Plaintiff-Appellee Abdullah al-Kidd (al-Kidd), a United States citizen and a married man with two children, was arrested at a Dulles International Airport ticket counter. He was handcuffed, taken to the airport’s police substation, and interrogated. Over the next sixteen days, he was confined in high security cells lit twenty-four hours a day in Virginia, Oklahoma, and then Idaho, during which he was strip…

2Cases cited79 opinions

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3Cited by202 opinions

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