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Zadvydas v. Davis, No. 99-7791 (U.S. Supreme Court) (533 U.S. 678; 121 S.Ct. 2491) (June 28, 2001) (Justice Breyer)

Loaded on June 1, 2001 published in Punch and Jurists June 11, 2001
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Limitations on Period of Detention.

Here a divided Court held that a proision of the IIRIRA that authorizes the post-removal-period detention of removed aliens must be construed to contain an "implicit 'reasonable time' limitation" to avoid serious constitutional concerns.

In this case, a philosophically divided Supreme Court again placed sharp limits on the Government’s ability ...

 

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