Ali Shah Mousouvi v. George W. Bush

Ali Shah Mousouvi v. George W. Bush(Civil Action No. 05-cv-1124) is a writ of habeas corpus filed on behalf a several Guantanamo captives.

The lead petitioners on this petition included:
Carolyn M. Welshhans, R. Michael Smith and Rebecca Dick of Dechert LLP."'cite news
url=http://listproc.ucdavis.edu/archives/law-lib/law-lib.log0701/att-0174/01-GITMO_AttyList.pdf
title=Lead Petitioners' Counsel in Guantanamo Habeas Cases
publisher=Center for Constitutional Rights
date=Monday, January 8, 2007
accessdate=2008-06-11
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistproc.ucdavis.edu%2Farchives%2Flaw-lib%2Flaw-lib.log0701%2Fatt-0174%2F01-GITMO_AttyList.pdf&date=2008-09-24 mirror] ]

eized papers

On June 10 2006 the Department of Defense reported the deaths in custody of three captives. They asserted the three men committed suicide. And they seized all the captives' habeas documents, based on a suspicion that the captives' habeas attorneys had coordinated the men's deaths.cite web
url=http://www.pegc.us/archive/OK_v_Bush/govt_resp_to_GK_20060815.pdf
title=Respondents' response to Court's August 7, 2006 order
date=August 15 2006
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-06-23 [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pegc.us%2Farchive%2FOK_v_Bush%2Fgovt_resp_to_GK_20060815.pdf&date=2008-08-18 mirror] ] Habeas corpus petitioners amalgamated with Mousouvi v. Bush who had their papers seized in June 2006 included::

Military Commissions Act

The Military Commissions Act of 2006 mandated that Guantanamo captives were no longer entitled to access the US civil justice system, so all outstanding habeas corpus petitions were stayed.cite news
url=http://natseclaw.typepad.com/natseclaw/files/Hamdan.28j.letter.pdf
title=NOTICE OF MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT OF 2006
publisher=United States Department of Justice
author=Peter D. Keisler, Douglas N. Letter
date=2006-10-16
accessdate=2008-09-30
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnatseclaw.typepad.com%2Fnatseclaw%2Ffiles%2FHamdan.28j.letter.pdf&date=2008-09-30 mirror] ]

Boumediene v. Bush

On June 12 2008 the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Boumediene v. Bush, that the Military Commissions Act could not remove the right for Guantanamo captives to access the US Federal Court system. And all previous Guantanamo captives' habeas petitions were eligible to be re-instated.

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