Susan Baker Manning

Susan Baker Manning is an American lawyer.cite web
url=http://law.shu.edu/guantanamoteachin/page8.htm
title=Guantanamo Bay Bar Association
publisher="Seton Hall University School of Law"
accessdate=2007-08-30] cite web
url=http://www.bingham.com/Lawyer.aspx?LawyerID=238
title=Susan Baker Manning bio
publisher="Bingham McCutchen"
accessdate=2007-09-05] cite news
url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/12/washington/12gitmo.html?ref=todayspaper
publisher=New York Times
author=William Glaberson
title=Officials Cite Danger in Revealing Detainee Data
date=Wednesday, September 12, 2007
accessdate=2007-09-12
page=A18] cite news
url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/23/AR2005122301503.html
title=Detainees Face Limited Access to Courts: But Bill Awaiting Bush Signature Would Shield Terror Suspects from U.S. Abuse
pages=page A04
publisher=Washington Post
author=Josh White
date=Saturday, December 24, 2005
accessdate=2008-01-05] She is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Bingham McCutchen, LLP.cite news
url=http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/jan-june07/Guantanamo_06-07.html
title=Guantanamo Detainees Face Changing Legal Process
publisher=PBS Newshour
author=Kwame Holman
date=June 7 2007
accessdate=2008-01-06]

Guantanamo clients

Manning is notable for volunteering to serve as a pro bono attorney for numerous Uighur captives held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.Manning played a leading role in a challenge focussed around the captives' detention based on an avenue of appeal that the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 (DTA) opened. The DTA closed the opportunity for captives who had not yet had writs of habeas corpus filed on their behalf. But the DTA allowed captives to challenge the determinations of their Combatant Status Review Tribunals, that they were properly classified as "enemy combatants".The DTA allowed captives to challenge the enemy combatant determination if the Tribunal failed to follow the rules laid out in their mandate.

One aspect of that challenge was a request that the court force the DoD to release more information on the evidence used to justify the captive's detention. Manning said: quotation
“If we’re going to hold people, possibly for the rest of their lives, it seems eminently fair that we should look at all the evidence to see if they are or are not the people who should be at Guantánamo.”

Her Guantanamo habeas corpus and DTA cases include:
*Qassim v. Bush
*Kiyemba v. Bush
*Mamet v. Bush
*Parhat v. Gates

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