This report provides an overview of the early judicial developments and the establishment of Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRTs) procedures; summarizes selected court cases related to the detentions and the use of military commissions; and discusses the Detainee Treatment Act, as amended by the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and the Military Commissions Act of 2009, analyzing its effects on detainee-related litigation in federal court. The report summarizes the Supreme Court's decision in Boumediene invalidating Congress's efforts to revoke the courts' habeas jurisdiction, and discusses some remaining issues and subsequent developments
Petitioners, military personnel, were convicted by courts martial of rape and murder. After exhausti...
The Writ of Habeas Corpus is one of the foremost rights entrenched in the Common Law System. However...
In 2008, Guantanamo detainees won a landmark victory in Boumediene v. Bush, which held that the Cong...
This report provides an overview of the early judicial developments and the establishment of Combata...
This report provides an overview of the Combatant Status Review Tribunal procedures, summarizes cour...
This report summarizes the Boumediene decision and analyzes several of its major implications for th...
In Rasul v. Bush, a divided Supreme Court declared that “a state of war is not a blank check for the...
After the U.S. Supreme Court held that U.S. courts have jurisdiction to hear legal challenges on beh...
Following the harrowing events of September 11, 2001, and pursuant to the Authorization for Use of M...
This report discusses major judicial opinions concerning suspected enemy belligerents detained in th...
In the wake of the recent Supreme Court decisions on the legal rights of “enemy combatants,” this Ar...
The United States Supreme Court held that aliens captured abroad and detained at Guantanamo Bay have...
In Rasul v. Bush, the Supreme Court held that federal courts have jurisdiction over habeas corpus pe...
Beginning in 2001, the United States began transporting hundreds of persons captured overseas in the...
On June 12th, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Boumediene v. Bush, a case involvin...
Petitioners, military personnel, were convicted by courts martial of rape and murder. After exhausti...
The Writ of Habeas Corpus is one of the foremost rights entrenched in the Common Law System. However...
In 2008, Guantanamo detainees won a landmark victory in Boumediene v. Bush, which held that the Cong...
This report provides an overview of the early judicial developments and the establishment of Combata...
This report provides an overview of the Combatant Status Review Tribunal procedures, summarizes cour...
This report summarizes the Boumediene decision and analyzes several of its major implications for th...
In Rasul v. Bush, a divided Supreme Court declared that “a state of war is not a blank check for the...
After the U.S. Supreme Court held that U.S. courts have jurisdiction to hear legal challenges on beh...
Following the harrowing events of September 11, 2001, and pursuant to the Authorization for Use of M...
This report discusses major judicial opinions concerning suspected enemy belligerents detained in th...
In the wake of the recent Supreme Court decisions on the legal rights of “enemy combatants,” this Ar...
The United States Supreme Court held that aliens captured abroad and detained at Guantanamo Bay have...
In Rasul v. Bush, the Supreme Court held that federal courts have jurisdiction over habeas corpus pe...
Beginning in 2001, the United States began transporting hundreds of persons captured overseas in the...
On June 12th, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Boumediene v. Bush, a case involvin...
Petitioners, military personnel, were convicted by courts martial of rape and murder. After exhausti...
The Writ of Habeas Corpus is one of the foremost rights entrenched in the Common Law System. However...
In 2008, Guantanamo detainees won a landmark victory in Boumediene v. Bush, which held that the Cong...