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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

“Court Sides With C.I.A. on Seizure of Terror Suspects”: Charlie Savage will have this article Thursday in The New York Times.

In Thursday’s edition of The Los Angeles Times, Carol J. Williams will have an article headlined “9th Circuit throws out CIA torture lawsuit for national security reasons; The decision by a divided appeals court says the risk of state secrets being exposed outweighs the alleged victims’ right to seek damages from a Boeing subsidiary they say aided in the renditions.”

The Washington Post has a news update headlined “U.S. appeals court dismisses suit against firm in ‘extraordinary rendition’ case.”

Evan Perez of The Wall Street Journal has a news update headlined “Suit Against Boeing Over Rendition Program Dismissed.”

And Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has an article headlined “CIA rendition: US court throws out torture case, citing state secrets; Appeals court judges sound apologetic tone in ruling; plaintiffs say they were tortured overseas in ‘extraordinary rendition’ program.”

My earlier coverage of today’s en banc Ninth Circuit ruling can be accessed here.

Posted at 8:46 PM by Howard Bashman



“Federal appeals court tosses lawsuit over CIA ‘torture’ flights”: Howard Mintz of The San Jose Mercury news has this update.

Reuters reports that “Boeing subsidiary wins appeal over CIA flights; Appeals court dismisses case brought by ACLU; Court votes 6-5 to end the case.”

Bloomberg News reports that “Boeing’s Jeppesen Unit Wins Dismissal of Lawsuit Alleging Torture Flights.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Appeals court dismisses Boeing-CIA lawsuit.”

You can access todays’s 6-5 ruling of an en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link. The Ninth Circuit also separately issued a 25.54 MB PDF appendix that accompanies today’s ruling.

Update: At Wired.com’s “Threat Level” blog, David Kravets has a post titled “Citing Obama’s ‘State Secrets’ Privilege, Court Tosses Torture Case.”

Posted at 2:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“Appeals court in Phila.: Warrant may be needed to track cell phones.” This article appears today in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Shannon P. Duffy of The Legal Intelligencer today has an article headlined “3rd Circuit: Probable Cause May Be Needed for Cell Phone Location Data.”

And at Wired.com’s “Threat Level” blog, David Kravets has a post titled “Court OKs Warrantless Cell-Site Tracking.”

My earlier coverage of yesterday’s Third Circuit ruling appears at this link.

Posted at 7:58 AM by Howard Bashman