scotusblog.com - 2/10/2009
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The Obama Administration, in its first significant court filing dealing with detainees’ challenges to their imprisonment, urged a federal judge on Monday not to lay down a general definition of who is to be held in confinement as an “enemy combatant.” The judge should decide ...
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'Enemy Combatants' No More?
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... with the U.S. District Court for D.C., the Obama administration argued that “the Court should not address the [definition of ‘enemy combatant’] in the abstract … before reaching the merits of a particular case.” In other words, the administration requested adjudication of Guantanamo habeas cases on the merits without application of a general “enemy combatant” rule, SCOTUSblog’s Lyle Denniston wrote. ...
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