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5.336 documents for habeas corpus definition

- Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U.S. (2008)
... al Qaeda, each petitioner sought a writ of habeas corpus in the District Court, which ordered the ca... applies to habeas actions, which, by definition, "relate to . . . detention" within that section's...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Rasul v. Bush, 542 U.S. 466 (2004)
...The District Court construed the suits as habeas petitions and dismissed them for want of jurisdict..., each filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus, seeking release from custody, access to counsel, ... of the adoption of a more expansive definition of the 'custody' requirement of the habeas statute...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Access to Habeas Corpus: A Human Rights Analysis of U.S. Practices in the War on Terrorism
Introduction - II. History and significance of habeas corpus - III. Habeas corpus provisions in relevant human rights law - A. Article 9(4) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - B. Article XXV of the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man - IV. Basic guarantees and scope of application - A. Basic Guarantees - B. Relationship to International Humanitarian Law - C. Derogability - D. Extraterritorial Application - V. Assessing american compliance - A. Availability of Review - B. Procedural Issues - VI. Conclusion
- Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems
- Nbr. 20-1, May 2011

- Mayle v. Felix, 545 U.S. ___ (2005)
...His current application for federal habeas relief centers on two alleged trial-court errors, ...Habeas Corpus Rule 11 permits application of the Federal Rules o... the Ninth Circuit's comprehensive definition of "conduct, transaction, or occurrence," virtuall...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Prerogative power in the Obama administration: continuity and change in the war on terrorism.
... detention of detainees, limited definition of habeas corpus rights, use of military commissio...
- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Vol. 41 Nbr. 2, June 2011
- Preiser v. Rodriguez, 411 U.S. 475 (1973)
...1983, in conjunction with a habeas corpus action, claiming that his credits were unco...And the nub of the problem is the definition of the Court's new-found and essentially ethereal ...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- David Matthews v. Philip Parker, (6th Cir. 2011)
... and dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed pursuant to 28U.S.C. § 2254. For the...However, by definition, Petitioner could not have raised his ineffective ...
- Federal Circuits
- Fay v. Noia, 372 U.S. 391 (1963)
... to a Federal District Court for a writ of habeas corpus, which was denied on the ground that his fa...The classic definition of waiver enunciated in Johnson v. Zerbst, 304 U.S...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Tyrants, Mythologized in Life, Human in Death
NEW YORK - It may be true, it may be myth. But in 1967, when Che Guevara faced the Bolivian army sergeant who was about to execute him, history records the legendary revolutionary's final words like this: "Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man. Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu, Liberia's Samuel Doe, Benito Mussolini and, now, Moammar Gadhafi. No matter how much a mythologized despot or mastermind builds up a cult of personality in life, when an undignified death arrives, the incontrovertible reality is hard to avoid: We are, in the end, merely lumps of flesh.

...That's the very definition of "habeas corpus" - "you have the body." And now,...
- Charleston Gazette
- October 25, 2011
- Once Mythic, Reduced in Death
NEW YORK - It might be true, it might be myth. But in 1967, when Che Guevara faced the Bolivian army sergeant who was about to execute him, history records the legendary revolutionary's final words like this: "Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man. Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu, Liberia's Samuel Doe, Benito Mussolini and, now, Moammar Gadhafi. No matter how much a mythologized despot or mastermind builds up a cult of personality in life, when an undignified death arrives, the incontrovertible reality is hard to avoid: We are, in the end, merely lumps of flesh.

...That's the very definition of "habeas corpus" - "you have the body." And now,...
- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- October 24, 2011