Federal Judicial Center

National Security Case Management Federal Judicial Center

This annotated guide describes special case-management issues that typically arise in national security cases. Guide text is followed by instructive examples drawn from a selection of cases that are more fully described in a companion publication, National Security Case Studies: Special Case-Management Challenges (Federal Judicial Center 2011). National Security Case Studies includes an illustrative and instructive selection of cases concerning national security issues that have appeared in Article III courts. Many of the lessons derived from these cases came from close examinations of the case files and from interviews with presiding judges-especially with respect to case-management issues that are not always written up in published opinions.