US Supreme Court Docket

Title:

Lakhdar Boumediene, et al. v. George W. Bush, President of the United States, et al.
Khaled A. F. Al Odah, Next Friend of Fawzi Khalid Abdullah Fahad Al Odah, et al. v. United States

Subject:

Guantanamo, Military Commissions Act, Habeas Corpus, Imprisonment, Civil Procedure

Questions:

• Whether the Military Commissions Act of 2006, Pub. L. No. 109-366, 120 Stat. 2600, validly stripped federal court jurisdiction over habeas corpus petitions filed by foreign citizens imprisoned indefinitely at the United States Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay.
• Whether Petitioners' habeas corpus petitions, which establish that the United States government has imprisoned Petitioners for over five years, demonstrate unlawful confinement requiring the grant of habeas relief or, at least, a hearing on the merits.

Decisions:

• U.S. Court of Appeals - D.C. Circuit Opinion Filed: February 20, 2007
• United States Supreme Court, Cert. Granted: June 29, 2007

Resources:

• Docket Sheet From the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Northwestern University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket

Petition Phase

• Certiorari Petition
• Brief in Opposition

Merits Phase

• Petitioners Al Odah, et al. Brief
• Petitioners El Banna's, et al. Brief
• Boumediene Petitioners' Brief
• Respondent's Brief
• Reply Brief for Boumediene Petitioners
• Reply Brief for El-Banna
• Reply Brief for Al Odah

Seth P. Waxman
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Washington, DC

Karma B. Brown
Hunton & Williams LLP
Washington, DC

Amici Briefs In Support of Petitioners

Brief of the American Civil Liberties Union and Public Justice

Brief of Retired Military Officers

Brief of the American Bar Association

Brief of Canadian Parliamentarians and Professors of Law

Brief for the Commonwealth Lawyers Association

Brief of Federal Courts and International Law Professors

Brief of the Federal Public Defender for the Southern District of Florida

Brief of Former United States Diplomats

Brief of the Coalition of Non-Governmental Organizations

Brief of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Brief of Legal Historians

Brief of Amnesty International, et al.

Brief of Specialists in Israeli Military Law and Constitutional Law

Brief of Professors of Constitutional Law and Federal Jurisdiction

Brief of International Humanitarian Law Experts

Brief of United States Senator Arlen Specter

Brief on Behalf of Former Federal Judges

Brief of National Institute of Military Justice

Brief of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Brief of 383 United Kingdom and European Parliamentarians

Brief of Salim Hamdan as Amicus Curiae

Brief of the Cato Institute As Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner

Brief of International Law Scholars as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent Omar Khadr

Brief for Respondent Omar Khadr Supporting Petitioners

Amici Briefs in Support of Respondents

Brief of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation

Brief of the American Center for Law and Justice

Brief of the Foundation For Defense of Democracies, et al.

Brief of Retired Generals and Admirals, et al.

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