Legal Opinion
Arkan Ali v. Donald Rumsfeld
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 21, 2011No. 07-5178, 07-5185, 07-5186, 07-5187PublishedCited by 171 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge HENDERSON.
Dissenting opinion filed by Senior Circuit Judge EDWARDS.
KAREN LECRAFT HENDERSON, Circuit Judge:
Four Afghan and five Iraqi citizens captured and subsequently held in Afghanistan and Iraq, respectively, by the United States military sued Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of the United States Department of Defense, and three high-ranking Army officers1 (collectively, defen*765dants) under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), 28 U.S.C. § 1350, and the Third and Fourth Geneva…
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3Cited by171 opinions
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