Guantanamo captives' appeals in Washington DC Courts

Guantananmo detainees have been allowed to initiate appeals in Washington DC Courts since the passage of the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 (DTA).The closed off the right of Guantanamo detainees to submit new petitions of habeas corpus. It substituted a right to a limited appeal to Federal Courts of appeal in Washington DC.cite news
url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/21/AR2007122101392.html
title=Detainee Evidence Probe Weighed: Judge Told Guantanamo Information May Have Been Destroyed
pages=Page A02
publisher=Washington Post
author=Carol D. Leonnig
date=Saturday, December 22, 2007
accessdate=2008-01-06] The Act allowed detainees to challenge whether their Combatant Status Review Tribunals had correctly followed the rules laid out by the Department of Defense.

After the passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) closed down the pending habeas corpus cases.Attorneys for the detainees initiated both a challenge to the constitutionality of the MCA's stripping of the right to habeas corpus; and they started initiating the appeals in the DC Federal Courts of appeal allowed by the DTA.

June 2008 rulings

On June 12 2008, in Boumediene v. Bush, the United States Supreme Court ruled the Combatant Status Review Tribunals provided the detainees with insufficient protection, and re-opened the dtainees' access to file habeas corpus.

On 23 June 2008 a three judge panel reviewed the evidence used to justify Parhat's designation as an "enemy combatant" and ruled that he had never been an enemy combatant after all.cite news
url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/23/AR2008062300844.html
title=Appeals court rules for Guantanamo prisoner
publisher=Washington Post
author=James Vicini
date=June 23 2008
accessdate=2008-06-23
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2008%2F06%2F23%2FAR2008062300844.html&date=2008-06-23 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/41907.html
title=In first, court rejects military's ruling in Guantanamo case
publisher=McClatchy News Service
date=June 23 2008
accessdate=2008-06-23
quote=] cite news
url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/23/america/NA-GEN-US-Guantanamo-Chinese-Muslim.php
title=US appeals court rejects classification of Chinese Muslim as an enemy combatant
publisher=International Herald Tribune
date=June 23 2008
accessdate=2008-06-23
quote=] cite news
url=http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/snark-injection-for-guantanamo-trial/?hp
title=Snark Injection for Guantanamo Trial
publisher=New York Times
author=Mike Nizza
date=2008-06-30
accessdate=2008-06-30
quote=] cite news
url=http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/common/opinions/200806/06-1397-1124487.pdf
title=Huzaifa Parhat v. Gates
publisher=United States Department of Justice
author=Merrick B. Garland
date=2008-06-30
accessdate=2008-06-30
quote=] cite news
url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/washington/01gitmo.html?hp
title=Court Is Skeptical of U.S. Evidence in Guantánamo Case
publisher=New York Times
author=William Glaberson
date=2008-06-30
accessdate=2008-06-30
quote=]

Bush Presidency response

On July 21 2008 United States Attorney General Michael Mukasey called on the Congress to pass legislation controlling how judges would review the detainees' habeas petitions.cite news
url=http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN2140857120080721
title=Bush law chief seeks war declaration on al Qaeda
publisher=Reuters
author=
date=2008-07-21
accessdate=2008-07-21
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2FpoliticsNews%2FidUSN2140857120080721%3Fsp%3Dtrue&date=2008-07-21 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/washington/22justice.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1216667611-VUzbXoMuUhzCHuHUYeD0GQ
title=Administration Calls for Action on Detainees
publisher=New York Times
author=Eric Lichtblau
date=2208-07-22
accessdate=2008-07-21
quote=] cite news
url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/07/guantanamo-muka.html
title=In key Gitmo case, Mukasey stays on White House path
publisher=Los Angeles Times
author=James Gerstenzang
date=2008-07-21
accessdate=2008-07-21
quote=] Mukasey was seeking to have the legislation control what evidence should be made public, and to proscribe releasing any of the detainees within the USA.

Detainees who are filing appeals in Federal Court

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