The climate of "hysteria" following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks may have led Attorney General John Ashcroft to treat undocumented Muslims and Arabs as potential terrorists based on the thinnest of...
A US appeals court on Wednesday reinstated a claim against former attorney general John Ashcroft and other Justice Department officials, stemming from the abuse of Arab and Muslim men and others...
High-level officials in the George W. Bush administration can be sued by immigrants who were swept up in post-9/11 investigations and subjected to abuse while held in detention facilities, the Second...
A federal appeals court has allowed a group of immigrants to proceed with a lawsuit accusing Bush administration officials of widespread constitutional violations after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist...
Claims that former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft approved harsh confinement conditions for immigrants who had no connection to terrorism but were detained following the Sept. 11 attacks because...
Victims of post-9/11 racial profiling, illegal detention, and abuse in the U.S. may have the chance to sue high-level Bush administration officials, including former Attorney General John Ashcroft, a...
"We're going to beat you up, son." "Son, we're going to take care of you. We are going to send you to a place you cannot imagine." Majid Khan's interrogators meant what they said. In newly...
It has been nearly 14 years since the Sept. 11 attacks, but a lawsuit on behalf of Muslims rounded up in the aftermath has barely moved forward as lawyers try to show how frightening it was for...
I’ve written extensively about the important and complex legal questions raised by state-law tort suits against private military contractors, many of which have arisen in the context of suits by...
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) unsuccessfully attempted to censor a Columbia University workshop on Citizenship and Nationality in Israel/Palestine that took place this weekend. The day-...
