Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Litigation Blogs -> How Appealing

Litigation

: How Appealing

"In 1998, the President of the United States ordered a missile strike against a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan that he believed was connected to the terrorist activities of Osama bin Laden."

"In 1998, the President of the United States ordered a missile strike against a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan that he believed was connected to the terrorist activities of Osama bin Laden." So begins an opinion that the majority on a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued today.

The opening paragraph of the majority opinion continues: "The owners of the plant sued the United States, challenging several allegedly defamatory statements made by senior executive branch officials justifying the strike as well as the government's failure to compensate them for the destruction of the plant. The district court dismissed plaintiffs' complaint, and we affirm on the ground that it presents a nonjusticiable political question."

Full post as published by How Appealing on March 27, 2009 (boomark / email).