Legal Opinion
Mohammed Jawad v. Robert Gates
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided August 12, 2016No. 15-5250PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRIFFITH, Circuit Judge:
The United States detained Mohammed Jawad at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base for more than six years until he was released and returned to his native Afghanistan in 2009. He has filed a damages action against the United States and various federal officials, alleging that they subjected him to torture while he was in their custody. We affirm the district court’s dismissal of Jawad’s complaint because the federal courts lack jurisdiction to hear his claims.
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Because we are reviewing the dismissal of Jawad’s complaint, we take his allegations as true and recite the facts in the…
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