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Injunction Against Publicly Identifying Pseudonymous Litigants Is Content-Based Prior Restraint,

and thus presumptively a First Amendment violation (though here the presumption was rebutted by national security interests).

Reason

Fourth Circuit Upholds Injunction Against Disclosing Names of Perceived Afghan Collaborators

The order came in a peculiar context—a civil lawsuit over the custody of a child born in Afghanistan—but its logic extends further.

Reason

Virginia Supreme Court rules US Marine's adoption of an Afghan war orphan will stand

The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that a U.S. Marine and his wife will keep an Afghan orphan they brought home in defiance of the U.S. government’s decision to reunite her with her Afghan family

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Takeaways on AP report about how US government worked against itself to let Marine adopt Afghan girl

Thousands of pages of once-secret court documents show how federal officials and a Virginia court helped an American Marine adopt an Afghan war orphan, in defiance of the U.S. government’s official policy to unite the child with her family

The Independent UK

US government worked against itself to let Marine adopt Afghan girl, documents obtained by AP show

The Independent UK

Military board substantiates misconduct but declines to fire Marine who adopted Afghan orphan

A U.S. Marine whose adoption of an Afghan war orphan has spurred a yearslong legal battle and raised alarms at the highest levels of government will stay in the Marine Corps

The Independent UK

"The Facts Alleged … Tell a Remarkable Story of Resilience and Duplicity" Related to Adoption of Afghan Orphan

From Doe v. Mast, decided Wednesday by Judge Norman Moon (W.D. Va.) (for more on the recent Virginia Court of Appeals decision voiding the adoption, see this AP story [Martha Mendoza, Juliet Linderman & Claire Galofaro]): The facts alleged in Plaintiffs' complaint tell a remarkable story of resilience and duplicity.…

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Appeals court voids Marine's adoption of Afghan orphan; child's fate remains in limbo

A Virginia appellate court ruled Tuesday that a U.S. Marine should never have been granted an adoption of an Afghan war orphan and voided the custody order he’s relied on to raise the girl for nearly three years

The Independent UK

US fights to stop soldier from keeping Afghan war orphan

Marine Major Joshua Mast and his wife were accused of abducting the baby girl after her entire family were killed in a US special forces raid

The Independent UK

Secret records: Government says Marine's adoption of Afghan orphan seen as abduction, must be undone

The U.S. government has warned a Virginia judge that an American Marine’s adoption of an Afghan war orphan was flawed and could be seen as international child abduction

The Independent UK

US Marine’s adoption of Afghan war orphan voided

The rare ruling is the latest twist in an ongoing legal battle between Afghan and US couples for three-year-old girl.

Al Jazeera

Afghan couple accuse US Marine of abducting their baby

An Afghan couple who arrived in the U.S. as refugees are suing a U.S. Marine and his wife for allegedly abducting their baby

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