war-crimes

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23A600 Ali Hamza Al Bahlul v. United States District of Columbia 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete constitutional-jurisdiction due-process guantanamo-bay inchoate-crimes military-commission war-crimes Question not identified.
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
18-1071 Brandi K. Stokes v. Timothy Martin Sulak Fifth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process geneva-conventions international-law legal-notice prisoner-of-war procedural-waiver standing treaty-interpretation waiver war-crimes Whether rights secured by the Geneva Conventions can be waived by inadequate briefing or late notice
18-550 Brandi K. Stokes v. Christopher Lance Corsbie, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1447d civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction geneva-conventions grave-breaches international-law preemption removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction war-crimes Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) is preempted by international law for claims involving grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions
18-470 Brandi K. Stokes v. Christopher Lance Corsbie, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights geneva-conventions international-law jurisdiction sovereign-immunity treaty-interpretation war-crimes Whether the United States has sovereign immunity for claims involving grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions
18-6011 Irek Ilgiz Hamidullin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-conflict article-iii-court battlefield-conduct combatant-detention common-law-defense criminal-prosecution foreign-soldiers international-law military-law war-crimes Whether Army Regulation 190-8 requires an individual determination of legal status as a prerequisite to criminal prosecution of combatants for battlef…