Al-Kidd v. Ashcroft, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, September 4, 2009 [holding that John Ashcroft is not entitled to absolute and qualified immunity, thereby allowing an unlawful detention lawsuit by US citizen Abdullah Al-Kidd to go forward].
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