Ahmad v. Wigen

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the fugitives’ alleged bombing of a civilian bus violated the laws of armed conflict
• holding that an action cannot be defined as a polit- ical offense if it \violate[s] the Law of Armed Conflict\
• noting that ascertaining the roles of various individuals involved in the internal conflicts can be a strenuous task leading to ambiguous conclusions
• noting that the \legitimacy of a cause does not in itself legitimize the use of certain forms of violence especially against the innocent\ (internal quotation marks and alteration omitted)
• killing civilian on civilian bus “must be characterized as a random act of murderous terrorism, rather than a protected political offense”
• condemning the slaughter of innocent civilians as not worthy of protection as a political offense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).