Panetta, and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates as defendants. They sought an injunction preventing the targeted killing of Amer-ican-born citizen Anwar al-Aulaqi, and also sought to require the government to disclose the standards under which U.S. citizens may be “targeted for death.” 

 

American citizen Anwar Al-Aulaqi

 

On December 7, 2010, U.S. District Court Judge John D. Bates dismissed the lawsuit in an 83-page ruling, holding that Aulaqi’s father did not have legal standing to bring the lawsuit, and that his claims were judicially unreviewable under the political question doctrine inasmuch as he was questioning a decision that the U.S. Constitution committed to the political branches. Al-Aulaqi v. ...

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