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Last week, Cook filed a request in federal court seeking a temporary
restraining order and status as a conscientious objector represented by
California attorney Orly Taitz.
The government, in its response to the suit, claims that Cook’s suit is
“moot” in that he already has been told he doesn’t have to go to
Afghanistan, so the relief he is seeking has been granted.
“The Commanding General of SOCCENT (U.S. Special Operations Central
Command) has determined that he does not want the services of Major
Cook, and has revoked his deployment orders,” the response states.
In a pleading revised after the revocation of Cook’s orders, Taitz
argues that the application for preliminary injunction is not moot and
that retired Maj. Gen. Carol Dean Childers and active U.S. Air Force
reservist Lt. Col. David Earl Graeff have joined the suit “because it
is a matter of unparalleled public interest and importance and because
it is clearly a matter arising from issues of a recurring nature that
will escape review unless the Court exercises its discretionary
jurisdiction.”
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