EL-BANNA v. BUSH

Nos. CIV.A.04-1144 RWR, CIV.A. 04-2215 RMC, CIV.A.05-0492 JR, CIV.A.05-0764 CKK, CIV.A.05-0765 EGS.

394 F.Supp.2d 76 (2005)

Jamil EL-BANNA, et al., Petitioners v. George W. BUSH, President of the United States, et al., Respondents. Omar Deghayes, et al., Petitioners v. George W. Bush, President of the United States, et al., Respondents. Ahamed Abdul Aziz, et al., Petitioners v. George W. Bush, President of the United States, et al., Respondents. Ahmed Abu Imran, et al., Petitioners v. George W. Bush, President of the United States, et al., Respondents. Benjamin Mohammed Al Habashi, et al., Petitioners v. George W. Bush, President of the United States, et al., Respondents.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

September 28, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas James Behr, George Brent Mickum, IV, Keller & Heckman, LLP, Washington, DC, for Petitioners.

James W. Beane, Jr., Washington, DC, Stacey Danielle Becker, Julia Symon deKluiver, Clifford Chance US, LLP, Washington, DC, James M. Hosking, Christopher Land, Clifford Chance U.S. LLP, New York, NY, Wesley Powell, Hunton & Williams LLP, New York, NY, for Petitioners.

Anna Cayton-Holland, Denver, CO, Agnieszka M. Fryszman, Matthew K. Handley, Michael Hausfeld, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, PLLC, Washington, DC, John R. Holland, Law Offices of John Holland, Denver, CO, Clive A. Stafford Smith, New Orleans, LA, for Petitioners.

James W. Beane, Jr., Washington, DC, for Petitioners.

James W. Beane, Jr., Washington, DC, Clive A. Stafford Smith, New Orleans, LA, for Petitioners.

Terry Marcus Henry, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, Preeya M. Noronha, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Robert J. Katerberg, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondents.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

OBERDORFER, District Judge.

Counsel for petitioners in the above-captioned cases, each petitioner a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have filed virtually identical motions for preliminary injunctions on petitioners' behalf.1 The motions request judicial intervention in the conditions of the petitioners' detention, particularly with regard to a hunger strike now in progress at Guantanamo Bay. These...

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