Legal Opinion
Humanitarian Law Project v. United States Treasury Department
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 24, 2009No. 07-55893PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge RYMER; Dissent by Judge PREGERSON.
RYMER, Circuit Judge:
We are asked to invalidate the President’s authority to designate terrorist organizations when there is an extraordinary threat to national security, as well as the Secretary of the Treasury’s authorization to designate further organizations; and to declare that a ban on providing “services” to, or for the benefit of, such organizations, is unconstitutionally vague and overbroad.
In the wake of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush declared a national emergency and, invoking the powers vested in him by the…
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