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scotusblog.com - 12/15/2008
Court orders new review on torture
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The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the D.C. Circuit Court to reconsider a ruling rejecting claims of torture and religious bias against detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Circuit Court is to take into account the Justices’ June 12 ruling in Boumediene v. Bush. In a decision issued ...
google.com - 12/15/2008
AFP: US Supreme Court orders review of Guantanamo torture case
— google.com — 4 days ago WASHINGTON (AFP) The US Supreme Court on Monday revived a lawsuit by four former... British detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military prison, ordering a lower court to reconsider their claims of torture and religious bias. The justices ordered ... (more) AFP: US Supreme Court orders review of Guantanamo ...

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ccrjustice.org - 12/15/2008
Supreme Court Sends Guantanamo Torture Case Back to Lower Court
— ccrjustice.org — December 15, 2008, Washington, D.C. – In Rasul v. Myers, the first case to challenge torture and... violations of religious freedom at Guantánamo, the U.S. Supreme Court today granted certiorari, vacated the underlying opinion and remanded the case ... (more) Supreme Court Sends Guantanamo Torture Case Back to ...

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nbclosangeles.com - 12/20/2008
California Supreme Court
— nbclosangeles.com — Article Garden Grove Cops: Give That Pot Back Dec 2, 2008 | 5 comments The U.S. Supreme... Court won't review a decision ordering Garden Grove police to return marijuana seized from a patient pulled over in a traffic stop... Article Calif. Supreme Court ... (more) California Supreme Court
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ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society:  High Court Orders Appeals Court To Reconsider Detainees' Charges of Torture, Religious Bias

The Corner on National Review Online:  Supremes Direct Appeals Court to Reconsider Torture Case

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High Court Orders Appeals Court To Reconsider Detainees' Charges of Torture, Religious Bias
ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society — ... in light of Boumediene v. Bush ….” The high court in Boumediene found that detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan have the right to challenge their indefinite imprisonments in court. The D.C. Circuit Court had rejected claims of torture and religious bias from detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Scotus Blog notes. The D.C. Circuit must now reconsider the detainees’ charges in light of the high court’s Boumediene ruling. Scotus Blog maintains that today’s high court action “will allow the new administration ...

Supremes Direct Appeals Court to Reconsider Torture Case
The Corner on National Review Online — ... of the military's determination of their status as enemy combatants; neither it nor the Court's 2006 Hamdan decision (giving the detainees at least some rights under Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions) held that the detainees had a right to bring a suit in federal court against the government officials responsible for prosecuting against them a war that was approved overwhelmingly by Congress and is supported overwhelmingly by the American people. ScotusBlog has more, here . Of note is this: The Justices action has at least two immediate effects: it will allow the ...

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