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This case file contains court filings from the Virginia district court case as well as materials related to the Supreme Court cases. Additionally, because the Department of State holds certain powers to determine whether or not foreign officials can seek immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, several files contain materials connected to the State Department. Several Supreme Court appeal briefs arrived interfiled with those related to Yousuf v. Samantar. These have been kept in their original order and include: Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, Al-Odah v. USA, and Rasul v. Bush and regard topics such as the Alien Tort Claims Act (Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain) and individual rights and freedoms (Al-Odah v. USA and Rasul v. Bush).