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RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE v. PADILLA et al.
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT
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...Rumsfeld. Congress responded to this decision by passing th... the Bush administration was about to lose Padilla v. Rumsfeld in the U.S. Supreme Court, a case in w...
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Donna R. Newman, Andrew G. Patel, New York, NY, for Petitioner-Appellee-Cross-Appellant.
Jenny S. Martinez, Stanford, CA; David W. DeBruin, Donald B....
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The Supreme Court's recent decision to hear the appeal of Rumsfeld v. Padilla this spring comes as welcome news to Americans hoping for a decisive rejection of one contentious element of the Bush administration's conduct of its "war on terror.
The case centers on Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen arrested in Chicago in May 2002 on suspicion of involvement in an alleged "dirty bomb" plot. Since June 2002, he has been held incommunicado in a South Carolina military prison, not charged with any crime but deprived of his constitutional right to a trial and, until several weeks ago, of access even to legal counsel. Even still, he is denied contact with family.
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...Mother and Next Friend of Jose. Padilla; JOSE PADILLA,. Plaintiffs-Appellan...
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...Rumsfeld and Boumediene v. Bush, respectively (Abramowitz 2...In both the Hamdi and Padilla cases, the Bush administration initially claimed t...
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...Mother and Next Friend of Jose. Padilla; JOSE PADILLA,. Plaintiffs-Appellan...
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The Supreme Court on Monday provided some clarity to the national debate concerning the administration's detention of enemy combatants, as it ruled on three separate cases. In Rasul et al. v. Bush, a 6-3 ruling allows foreign nationals held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to seek appeal in U.S. courts, stating that U.S. law "extends to aliens held in a territory over which the United States exercises plenary and exclusive jurisdiction, but not ultimate 'sovereignty'." In another case, Hamdi et al. v. Rumsfeld, the high court ruled that Yaser Esam Hamdi, an American of Saudi descent, did in fact possess due-process rights and must "receive notice of the factual basis for his classification" as an enemy combatant. A 5-4 ruling in Rumsfeld v. Padilla et al. dismissed the case of dirty bomb suspec...
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...Mother and Next Friend of Jose. Padilla; JOSE PADILLA,. Plaintiffs-Appellan...
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... before the Supreme Court's decision in Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 542 U.S. 426 (2004), the Army argues t...