Adel HAMLILY, Petitioner,
v.
Barack OBAMA, et al., Respondents.
Waleed Saeed Bn Saeed Zaid, et al., Petitioners,
v.
Barack Obama, et al., Respondents.
Abdul Hamid Abdul Salam Al-Ghizzawi, Petitioner,
v.
Barack Obama, et al., Respondents.
Moammar Badawi Dokhan, Petitioner,
v.
Barack Obama, et al., Respondents.
Shawali Khan, Petitioner,
v.
Barack Obama, et al., Respondents.
Muieen Adeen Jamal Adeen Abd Al F. Abd Al Sattar, Petitioner,
v.
Barack Obama, et al., Respondents.
United States District Court, District of Columbia.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
May 19, 2009.
May 19, 2009.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
James W. Beane, Jr., New Orleans, LA, Clive A. Stafford Smith, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Law Department, Winston Salem, NC, Paul Alan Leder, Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP, Washington, DC, for Adel Hamlily.
Andrew Loewenstein, Peter B. Ellis, Usha-Kiran K. Ghia, Foley Hoag, LLP, Boston, MA, David H. Remes, Silver Spring, MD, Judith Brown Chomsky, Law Offices of Judith Chomsky, Elkins Park, PA, for Waleed Saeed Bn Saeed Zaid, et al.
H. Candace Gorman, Law Office of H. Candace Gorman, Chicago, IL, Brent Nelson Rushforth, Day Pitney, LLP, Washington, DC, for Abdul Hamid Abdul Salam Al-Ghizzawi.
Kristine Huskey, National Security Clinic, Austin, TX, for Moammar Badawi Dokhan.
Leonard C. Goodman, Chicago, IL, for Shawali Khan.
Amy B. Cleary, Vicki Werneke, Carlos Warner, Darin Thompson, Jonathan P. Witmer-Rich, Timothy C. Ivey, Federal Public Defender, Northern District of Ohio, Cleveland, OH, Andy P. Hart, Ohio Office of the Federal Public Defender, Toledo, OH, for Muieen Adeen Jamal Adeen Abd Al F. Abd Al Sattar.
Frederick Sherwood Young, Scott Michael Marconda, Stephen P. Finn, Terry Marcus Henry, Alexander Kenneth Haas, August Edward Flentje, David Hugh White, Julia A. Berman, Patrick D. Davis, Robert J. Prince, Paul Edward Ahern, Scott, Steve Ray Matheny, Andrew I. Warden, Frederick Sherwood Young, U.S. Department of Justice, John T. Battaglia, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, DC, Gerard B. Sullivan, United States Attorney, Providence, RI, for Respondents.
United States District Court, District of Columbia.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JOHN D. BATES, District Judge.
Petitioners are detainees at the United States Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay who have challenged the legality of their detentions by seeking writs of habeas corpus. The issue presently before the Court is a threshold legal question in these habeas proceedings: what is the scope of the government's authority to detain these, and other, detainees pursuant to the Authorization for Use of Military Force...
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