Government
Sep. 9, 2010
Appellate Panel Allows State Secrets Privilege to Block Suit
The Bush administration's extraordinary rendition program cannot be examined in a U.S. courtroom as backdrop to a lawsuit by five terror suspects who claim to be its victims, a sharply divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals en banc panel.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The Bush administration's extraordinary rendition program cannot be examined in a U.S. courtroom as backdrop to a lawsuit by five terror suspects who claim to be its victims, a sharply divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals en banc panel held on Wednesday.
The state secrets at stake compelled dismissal of the case, the panel held on a 6-5 vote. Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan Inc...
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