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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-827 United States v. Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, aka Abu Zubaydah, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-18 Judgment Issued Amici (20)Relisted (5) cia cia-contractors civil-procedure classified-information discovery discovery-proceedings executive-privilege foreign-proceedings national-security state-secrets-privilege Whether the court of appeals erred in rejecting the United States' assertion of the state-secrets privilege
18-1315 Hmong 1, et al. v. Lao People's Democratic Republic, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied alien-tort-statute cia genocide head-of-state-immunity heads-of-state heads-of-state-immunity secret-war state-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction torture war-crimes Whether petitioners/survivors of the atrocities committed by the Laos communist government met their pleading burden under the Alien Tort Claims Act