BIN SA'ADOUN ALSA'ARY v. OBAMA

Civil No. 09-745 (RCL).

631 F.Supp.2d 9 (2009)

Nadir Omar Abdullah BIN SA'ADOUN ALSA'ARY (ISN 030), Petitioner, v. Barack H. OBAMA, et al., Respondents.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

June 22, 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, 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, Brian C. Spahn, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, Diana J. Pomeranz, Ilyse B. Stempler, Patricia L. Maher, King & Spalding, Richard G. Murphy, Jr., Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, Washington, DC, Amy B. Cleary, Carlos Warner, Vicki Werneke, Darin Thompson, Jillian S. Davis, Jonathan P. Witmer-Rich, 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, David S. Marshall, Seattle, WA, for Petitioner.

Andrew I. Warden, Charlotte A. Abel, Blanche L. Bruce, U.S. Attorney's Office, Carolyn Gail Mark, 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, Mary Elizabeth Carney, Norman Christopher Hardee, Patrick D. Davis, Paul A. Dean, Robert J. Prince, Scott Douglas Levin, Timothy Allen Bass, John Hunter Bennett, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondents.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

ROYCE C. LAMBERTH, Chief Judge.

Petitioner is challenging the legality of his detention at the United States Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba ("Guantanamo"). Before the Court is petitioner's First Motion [1096] for Leave to Take Discovery. As explained herein, petitioner's motion shall be granted in part and denied in part.

I. BACKGROUND

The Court is operating under the Case Management Order ("CMO") issued by...

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