Two civilian lawyers who had been ordered to continue representing the alleged mastermind of the USS Cole bombing despite withdrawing amid claims of improper government monitoring of their client conversations won relief Tuesday from a federal appellate court.

A Jenner & Block team, representing lawyers Mary Spears and Rosa Eliades, had filed a writ of mandamus in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

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