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Five days at a guesthouse in Kabul combined with 18 days at a training camp does not add up to a longstanding bond of brotherhood
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It is unfortunate, if not incredible, that FEMA and its counsel could not devise a sufficient notice system to spare these beleaguered evacuees the added burden of federal litigation to vindicate their constitutional rights
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Richard J. Leon (born 1949) is an American lawyer and current federal judge. He has served as a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia since 2002.

Leon was born in South Natick, Massachusetts. In 1949,

He received his Bachelor of Arts from the College of the Holy Cross (where he was a classmate of future Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas) in 1971. He received his J.D. from Suffolk University Law School in 1974.

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