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United States Supreme Court
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June 29, 2006

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld

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Legal Topic
Habeas corpus: Detainee Treatment Act

Summary

The United States Supreme Court reversed a decision of the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and held that accused terrorists held in Guantanamo Bay could not be tried by military tribunal under current law. CJLF had argued that Congress had repealed the Court’s jurisdiction to hear this claim in the Detainee Treatment Act. [CJLF brief in PDF.]

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