MOHAMMED v. OBAMA

Civil Action No. 05-1347 (GK).

704 F.Supp.2d 1 (2009)

Farhi Saeed Bin MOHAMMED, et. al., Petitioners, v. Barack H. OBAMA, et. al., Respondents.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

December 16, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David H. Remes, Appeal For Justice, Silver Spring, MD, Jerry Cohen, Burns & Levinson, Boston, MA, Ahmed Ghappour, Reprieve, London, UK, Alan Arnold Pemberton, Brian E. Foster, James McCall Smith, Philip A. Scarborough, Schuyler William Livingston, Jr., Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC, Shayana Devendra Kadidal, New York, NY, Stewart Eisenberg, Weinberg & Garber P.C., Northampton, MA, Zachary Katznelson, City University of New York Law School, Queens, NY, for Petitioners.

Andrew I. Warden, Paul Edward Ahern, Scott Michael Marconda, Terry Marcus Henry, Timothy Burke Walthall, Alexander Kenneth Haas, August Edward Flentje, David Hugh White, James J. Schwartz, Jay Apperson, John Hunter Bennett, Joseph Charles Folio, III, Julia A. Berman, Kathryn Celia Mason, Patrick D. Davis, Paul A. Dean, Robert J. Prince, Scott Douglas Levin, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for Respondents.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

GLADYS KESSLER, District Judge.

Petitioner Farhi Saeed Bin Mohammed ("Mohammed" or "Petitioner") has been detained since 2002 at the United States Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Respondents ("the Government") argue that his detention is justified under the Authorization for the Use of Military Force, Pub.L. No. 107-40 § 2(a), 115 Stat. 224, 224 (2001) ("AUMF"), which grants the Executive the power to detain individuals...

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