D.C. Circuit· 6/10/2014

Sami Allaithi v. Donald Rumsfeld

Citations

410 U.S. App. D.C. 160
753 F.3d 1327
2014 WL 2575417
2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 10696

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indicating that, where the conduct is not “devoid of a connection between tort and employer,” it is essentially foreseeable
finding that a government employee’s continued shackling and chaining of detainees after they were cleared as non-enemy combatants was conduct incidental to the detention and 8 interrogation of suspected enemy combatants
“Local [D.C.] law requires an employee be solely motivated by his [or her] own purposes for consequent conduct to fall outside the scope of employment.”
“In this circuit, it is not enough merely to mention a possible argument in the most skeletal way, leaving the court to do counsel’s work[.]”

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Judges: Tatel, Brown, Randolph

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