Estela LEBRON, for herself and as Mother and Next Friend of Jose Padilla; Jose Padilla, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Donald H. RUMSFELD, Former Secretary of Defense; Catherine T. Hanft, Former Commander Consolidated Brig; Melanie A. Marr, Former Commander Consolidated Brig; Lowell E. Jacoby, Vice Admiral, Former Director Defense Intelligence Agency; Paul Wolfowitz, Former Deputy Secretary of Defense; William Haynes, Former General Counsel Department of Defense; Leon E. Panetta, Secretary of Defense in his official and individual capacities, Defendants-Appellees, and
John Ashcroft, Former Attorney General; Michael H. Mobbs, Special Advisor to Undersecretary of Defense for Policy; John Does, 1-48, in their individual capacities; Mack D. Keen, Senior Chief Consolidated Brig; Craig Noble, Dr.; Sandy Seymour, Technical Director Consolidated Brig; Stephanie L. Wright, Commander Consolidated Brig, Defendants.
James P. Cullen, Brigadier General, USA (Ret.); Morris D. Davis, Colonel, USAF (Ret.); Eugene R. Fidell, Lieutenant Commander, USCG (Ret.); Evelyn P. Foote, Brigadier General, USA (Ret.); Don Guter, Rear Admiral, JAGC, USN (Ret.); Leif H. Hendrickson, Brigadier General, USMC (Ret.); John D. Hutson, Rear Admiral, JAGC, USN (Ret.); David R. Irvine, Brigadier General, USA (Ret.); Claudia J. Kennedy, Lieutenant General, USA (Ret.); Merrill A. McPeak, General, USAF (Ret.); Richard O'Meara, Brigadier General, USA (Ret.); Charles Otstott, Lieutenant General, USA (Ret.); Thomas J. Romig, Major General, USA (Ret.); Stephen N. Xenakis, Brigadier General, USA (Ret.); Erwin Chemerinsky, Founding Dean University of California-Irvine School of Law; Norman Dorsen, Frederick I. and Grace A. Stokes Professor of Law and Co-Director, Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program New York University School of Law; David Golove, Hiller Family Foundation Professor of Law New York University School of Law; Lee B. Kovarsky, Assistant Professor University of Maryland School of Law; Alan B. Morrison, Associate Dean for Public Interest and Public Service George Washington University Law School; Sheldon H. Nahmod, Distinguished Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Institute for Law and the Humanities Chicago-Kent College of Law; Alexander Reinert, Associate Professor of Law Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; Kermit Roosevelt, III, Professor of Law University of Pennsylvania Law School; Michael E. Tigar, Professor of the Practice of Law, Emeritus Duke University School of Law; Carl W. Tobias, Williams Professor of Law University of Richmond School of Law; William Van Alstyne, Lee Professor of Law William & Mary Law School; Stephen I. Vladeck, Professor of Law American University Washington College of Law, Amici Supporting Appellants,
William P. Barr; Edwin Meese, III; Michael B. Mukasey; Dick Thornburgh; United States of America, Amici Supporting Appellees.
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Argued: October 26, 2011.
Decided: January 23, 2012.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
ARGUED: Benjamin Elihu Wizner , American Civil Liberties Union, New York, New York, for Appellants. David Boris Rivkin , Baker & Hostetler LLP, Washington, D.C.; Richard Douglas Klingler , Sidley Austin, LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Alexander A. Abdo , American Civil Liberties Union, New York, New York; Jonathan Freiman , Hope R. Metcalf , Tahlia Townsend , Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, National Litigation Project, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; Michael P. O'Connell , Stirling & O'Connell, PA, Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellants. Lee A. Casey , Darin R. Bartram , Andrew M. Grossman , Baker & Hostetler LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellee Donald H. Rumsfeld. Frank Gregory Bowman, Edward C. Reddington, Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellee William J. Haynes II; Jacqueline G. Cooper, Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellee Catherine T. Hanft; William A. Coates, Roe Cassidy Coates & Price, P.A., Greenville, South Carolina, for Appellee Melanie A. Marr; Wan J. Kim, Kevin B. Huff, Andrew S. Oldham, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, PLLC, Washington, D.C., Henry L. Parr, Jr., Wyche, P.A., Greenville, South Carolina, for Appellee Lowell E. Jacoby; Paul W. Butler, Kevin R. Amer, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, Washington, D.C., Ruth Wedgwood, Washington, D.C., for Appellee Paul Wolfowitz. Michael F. Hertz, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Barbara L. Herwig, August E. Flentje, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellee Leon E. Panetta. Eric L. Lewis, James P. Davenport, Chiara Spector-Naranjo, Waleed Nassar, Baach Robinson & Lewis PLLC, Washington, D.C., for Retired Military Officers, Amici Supporting Appellants. Stephen I. Vladeck , Washington, D.C.; Armand Derfner , Derfner, Altman & Wilborn, Charleston, South Carolina, for Constitutional Law and Federal Courts Professors, Amici Supporting Appellants. Andrew G. McBride , William S. Consovoy , Claire J. Evans , Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, D.C., for Former Attorneys General William P. Barr , Edwin Meese, III , Michael B. Mukasey , Dick Thornburgh, Amici Supporting Appellees. Michael F. Hertz , Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Barbara L. Herwig , Robert M. Loeb , August E. Flentje , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the United States, Amicus Supporting Appellees.
Affirmed by published opinion. Judge WILKINSON wrote the opinion, in which Judge MOTZ and Judge DUNCAN joined.
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OPINION
WILKINSON, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs Jose Padilla, presently incarcerated due to his conviction after trial for federal crimes of terrorism, and his mother, Estela Lebron, sue for legal and equitable relief based on Padilla's prior military detention as an "enemy combatant." Padilla names as defendants the present Secretary of Defense and a number of former high-level civilian policy-makers in the Defense Department, as well as military officers...
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