Ashcroft v. al-Kidd

Ashcroft v. al-Kidd
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 2, 2011 Decided May 31, 2011
Full case name	John D. Ashcroft, Petitioner v. Abdullah al-Kidd
Citations	563 U.S. 731 (more) 131 S. Ct. 2074; 179 L. Ed. 2d 1149
Case history
Prior	Al-Kidd v. Ashcroft, 580 F.3d 949 (9th Cir. 2009); rehearing en banc denied, 598 F.3d 1129 (9th Cir. 2010); cert. granted, 562 U.S. 980 (2010).
Holding
United States Attorney General John D. Ashcroft could not be personally sued for his involvement in the federal detention of Abdullah al-Kidd, an American citizen, in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Majority	Scalia, joined by Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, Alito
Concurrence	Kennedy, joined by Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor (Part I)
Concurrence	Ginsburg (in judgment), joined by Breyer, Sotomayor
Concurrence	Sotomayor (in judgment), joined by Ginsburg, Breyer
Kagan took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

Ashcroft v. al-Kidd, 563 U.S. 731 (2011), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that U.S. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft could not be personally sued for his involvement in the detention of a U.S. citizen in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.^[1]