AHMED v. OBAMA

Civil Action No. 05-1678 (GK).

613 F.Supp.2d 51 (2009)

Alla Ali Bin Ali AHMED, et al., Petitioners, v. Barack H. OBAMA, et al., Respondents.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

May 11, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Agnieszka M. Fryszman, Kit A. Pierson, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, PLLC, Brent Nelson Rushforth, James G. Szymanski, Nicole A. Travers, Day Pitney, LLP, Washington, DC, Gitanjali Gutierrez, Shayana Devendra Kadidal, M. Alexander Bowie, II, Day Pitney LLC, New York, NY, Janet Elizabeth Haws Snell & Wilmer LLP Salt Lake City, UT, for Petitioners.

John Hunter Bennett, Paul Edward Ahern, Scott Michael Marconda, Terry Marcus Henry, Alexander Kenneth Haas, Andrew I. Warden, August Edward Flentje, David Hugh White, Julia A. Berman, Patrick D. Davis, Robert J. Prince, U.S. Department of Justice Washington, DC, for Respondents.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

GLADYS KESSLER, District Judge.

Petitioner Alia Ali Bin Ali Ahmed ("Ali Ahmed" or "the Petitioner") has been detained since 2002, when he was a teenager, 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...

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