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