BOUMEDIENE v. BUSH

Nos. 05-5062, 05-5063, 05-5064, 05-5095.

476 F.3d 934 (2006)

Lakhdar BOUMEDIENE, Detainee, Camp Delta, et al., Appellants v. George W. BUSH, President of the United States, et al., Appellees. Khaled A.F. Al Odah, Next Friend of Fawzi Khalid Abdullah Fahad Al Odah et al., Appellants v. United States of America, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

December 29, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Richard Cohen, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP, Julia C. Symon, Clifford Chance U.S. LLP, David J. Cynamon, Matthew Jeffrey MacLean, Osman Ahmad Handoo, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP, Neil H. Koslowe, Thomas B. Wilner, Shearman & Sterling, Washington, DC, Douglas Frank Curtis, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP, Wesley Railey Powell, Hunton & Williams LLP, Christopher Land, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary U.S. LLP, New York, NY, Stephen H. Oleskey, Mark Christopher Fleming, Robert Clifford Kirsch, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP, Boston, MA, for Appellants.

Eric David Miller, Federal Communications Commission, Robert Mark Loeb, Douglas N. Letter, Litigation Counsel, Catherine Y. Hancock, U.S. Department of Justice, (DOJ) Civil Division, Appellate Staff, Paul D. Clement, U.S. Department of Justice, (DOJ) Office of the Solicitor General, Peter Douglas Keisler, Gregory George Katsas, U.S. Department of Justice, (DOJ) Office of the Deputy Atty. Gen., Kenneth L. Wainstein, Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice (USA). National Security Division, Washington, DC, Appellees.

James F. Fitzpatrick, Arnold & Porter LLP, Eugene Roy Fidell, Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP, David O. Stewart, Ropes & Gray LLP, Morton H. Sklar, World Organization for Human Rights USA, Washington, DC, Jonathan Lewis Hafetz, New York University School of Law, Ronald William Meister, Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, PC, New York, NY, Amicus Curiae for Appellant.

Before: SENTELLE, RANDOLPH, and ROGERS, Circuit Judges.


ORDER

PER CURIAM.

Upon consideration of the unopposed motion of retired federal jurists for leave to file brief amici curiae in support of petitioners regarding the Military Commissions Act of 2006, and the lodged brief, it is

ORDERED that the motion for leave to file be denied. See Advisory Opinion No. 72, Committee on Codes of Conduct, Judicial Conference of the United States ("Judges should insure that the title `judge...

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