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Boumediene v. Bush, No. 06-1195 (U.S. Supreme Court) (553 U.S. 723; 128 S.Ct. 2229) (June 12, 2008) (Justice Kennedy)

Loaded on May 1, 2008 published in Punch and Jurists May 19, 2008
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Enemy Combatant Designation.

In a major blow to the Bush Administration’s policies of detaining indefinitely foreign nationals who are accused of being “enemy combatants,” a sharply divided Supreme Court held that the foreign nationals held at Guantánamo Bay have a right to pursue habeas corpus challenges to their detention in the Federal courts. ...

 

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