A San Francisco law firm filed a federal lawsuit this week against the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of Defense on behalf of a Bay Area resident who is stuck in the Gaza Strip amid an escalating Israeli military campaign.
The lawsuit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by the firm Shamieh, Shamieh, and Ternieden, and names U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as defendants. The suit argues that the U.S. government is failing its constitutional duty to bring the U.S. citizen home from a war zone.
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