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United States Court of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT ____________ No. 25-5418 September Term, 2025 1:25-cv-03005-JMC Filed On: November 27, 2025 District of Columbia, Appellee v. Donald J. Tr

United States Court of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT ____________ No. 25-5418 September Term, 2025 1:25-cv-03005-JMC Filed On: December 17, 2025 District of Columbia, Appellee v. Donald J. Trump,

United States Court of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT ____________ No. 25-5418 September Term, 2025 1:25-cv-03005-JMC Filed On: December 4, 2025 District of Columbia, Appellee v. Donald J. Tru

Millett, Circuit Judge: Khalid Ahmed Qassim, who has been held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba for seventeen years, appeals the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. On appeal, Qassim presses a due process challenge to the government's use of undisclosed classified information as a basis for his detention. In denying Qassim's motion in

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge Henderson. Karen LeCraft Henderson, Circuit Judge: Moath Hamza Ahmed Al-Alwi, a detainee at the United States Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus. The district court denied the petition. On appeal, Al-Alwi argues that the conflict resulting in his detention is so unprecedented that

SENTELLE, Senior Circuit Judge: Appellant, federal prisoner Roger Charles Day, Jr., initiated this action by a pro se petition in the United States District Court, seeking relief by way of writ from what he alleged to be an illegally imposed sentence. The petition is self-described as “pursuant to” various sections of the United States Code and Constitution,

Griffith, Circuit Judge: In May 2018, the President issued three executive orders regarding relations between the federal government and its employees. Unions representing federal employees brought suit in the district court challenging various aspects of the orders. The district court concluded that certain provisions in the orders were unlawful and enjoined the President's subordina

United States Court of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT Argued September 8, 2016 Decided March 31, 2017 No. 16-5011 JIHAD DHIAB, DETAINEE, GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL STATION AND SHAKER AAMER, AS NEXT FRIEND OF JIHAD DHIAB, APPELLEES v. DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL., APPELLANTS

Henry E. Hudson, Senior United States District Judge I. BACKGROUND Plaintiffs1 in this case seek damages for injuries resulting from the unauthorized publication of their personal information *655on the internet. Plaintiffs allege that their information was illegally obtained by Ru

B. Hack of the DNC's Email Systems Plaintiffs allege that [o]n one or more occasions before the summer of 2016, computer hackers working on behalf of the Russian government hacked into the email systems of the DNC in the District of Columbia and obtained voluminous amounts of data, including emails and other documents sent to and from thousands of individuals. Some of those individuals were staff m

WENDY BEETLESTONE, District Judge. *797Table of Contents I. Background...798 A. Contraceptive Mandate...798 B. Regulatory Action to Accommodate Religious Objections...799 C. Hobby Lobby & Wheaton College ...800 D. Regulat

PAUL L. FRIEDMAN, United States District Judge This matter is before the Court on the motion [Dkt. No. 485] of petitioner Saifullah Paracha to compel the United States to: (1) file a motion for exception from disclosure under Section I.F of the Amended Case Management Order within seven days; and (2) provide certain other discovery, or explain why the requested discovery is not required to be produced under the Amended Case Manageme

II. BACKGROUND A. The 116th Congress and the House Oversight Committee On January 3, 2019, the 116th Congress began with the Democratic Party controlling a majority of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. One of the House's first actions was to adopt the "Rules of the House of Representatives," which govern proceedings during the two-year term. This vote took pl

Chief Justice ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court. *2420In our judicial system, "the public has a right to every man's evidence."1 Since the earliest days of the Republic, "every man" has included the President of the United States. Beginning with Jefferson and carrying on through Clinton, Presidents hav

RICHARD J. LEON, United States District Judge Petitioner Abdul Razak Ali ("Ali" or "petitioner") challenges his continued detention at the United States Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he has been held since June 2002. Although this Court, Ali v. Obama , 741 F.Supp.2d 19 (D.D.C. 2011), and our Cou

Emmet G. Sullivan, United States District Judge I. Introduction In its previous Opinion, the Court held that plaintiffs, approximately 201 Members of the 535 Members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, had standing to sue defendant Donald J. Trump in his official capacity as President of the United States ("the President") for alleged violations of the Foreign Emoluments Clause

A. Objections to the Magistrate Judge's Order 1. Standard of Review Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 72(a), a district court "must consider timely objections" to a USMJ's order on nondispositive, pretrial matters and "modify or set aside any part of the order that is clearly erroneous or is contrary to law." "The 'clearly erroneous' standard applies to factu

Emmet G. Sullivan, United States District Judge The Court has issued two previous Opinions in this case. In its September 28, 2018 Opinion, the Court held that plaintiffs, approximately 201 Members of the 535 Members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, had standing to sue defendant Donald J. Trump in his official capacity as President of the United States ("the President") for alleged violations of the Foreign

A. David Copperthite, United States Magistrate Judge This case was referred to me for all discovery and related scheduling matters on May 7, 2018 (See ECF No. 152. re-assigned on May 7. 2018). Pending now before me are three motions: (1) Plaintiffs' motion to compel discovery (ECF No. 177). (2) Plaintiffs' motion for judicial determination of privilege (ECF No. 178),

On March 23, 2018, Defendants Donald J. Trump ("President Trump"), in his official capacity as President of the United States; James N. Mattis, in his official capacity as Secretary of Defense; Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., in his official capacity as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Richard V. Spencer, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Navy; Ryan D. McCarthy, in his official capacity as Acting Secretary of the Army; Heather A. Wilson, in her offi