MATTAN v. OBAMA

Civil Action No. 09-745 (RCL).

618 F.Supp.2d 24 (2009)

Mohammed Abdullah Taha MATTAN, et al., Petitioners, v. Barack OBAMA, et al., Respondents.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

May 21, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gordon Samuel Woodward, Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, LLP, Washington, DC, Rebecca Y. Starr, William T. Hangley, Sozi P. Tulante, Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin, Philadelphia, PA, Shayana Devendra Kadidal, Kristin Ann Meister, Michael E. Ward, W. Terence Walsh, Jonathan M. Fee, Alston & Bird LLP, New York, NY, H. Candace Gorman, Law Office of H. Candace Gorman, Chicago, IL, John A. Chandler, Elizabeth V. Tanis, Kristin B. Wilhelm, Sara J. Toering, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, Atlanta, GA, Richard G. Murphy, Jr., Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, Washington, DC, David S. Marshall, Seattle, WA, Amy B. Cleary, Carlos Warner, Vicki Werneke, Darin Thompson, Jonathan P. Witmer-Rich, Timothy C. Ivey, Federal Public Defender, Northern District of Ohio, Cleveland, OH, Andy P. Hart, Ohio Office of the Federal Public Defender, Toledo, OH, Zachary Katznelson, Ahmed Ghappour, London, UK, for Petitioners.

Andrew I. Warden, Federal Programs Branch, Blanche L. Bruce, Carolyn Gail Mark, Charlotte A. Abel, U.S. Attorney's Office, John P. Lohrer, John Edward Wallace, Nancy Naseem Safavi, Paul Edward Ahern, Rachelle C. Williams, Sarah Maloney, Sean W. O'Donnell, Jr., Sherry Denise Soanes, Stephen McCoy Elliott, Steve Ray Matheny, Terry Marcus Henry, Alexander Kenneth Haas, Dalin Riley Holyoak, David Hugh White, James C. Luh, James J. Schwartz, Jean Lin, Joseph Charles Folio, III, Julia A. Berman, Kathryn Celia Mason, Kristina Ann Wolfe, Martin Morris Shoemaker, Mary Elizabeth Carney, Norman Christopher Hardee, Patrick D. Davis, Paul A. Dean, Robert J. Prince, Scott Douglas Levin, Timothy Allen Bass, Sarah Maloney, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Jeffrey P. Lavicka, U.S. Department of Justice, Little Rock, AR, for Respondents.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

ROYCE C. LAMBERTH, Chief Judge.

This opinion shall set forth the scope of respondents' detention authority that will govern proceedings for the eight petitioners in the above-captioned case.1 This memorandum takes advantage of prior opinions by other judges of this Court, and the conclusions herein are based upon the detailed and insightful analyses contained in those opinions.

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