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Uighurs Denied en banc review: SCOTUSblog has been keeping us updated on the legal battle surrounding District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina?s Oct. 7 ruling that the 17 Chinese Muslim Uighurs be brought to the U.S. and temporarily released into the country. Today, Lyle Denniston posts that the en banc D.C. Circuit Court refused to review a three-judge panel?s order postponing their transfer. The order denied rehearing en banc without an opinion. Justices Janice Rogers Brown and Judith Rogers would have granted rehearing. As it currently stands, District Judge Urbina's order will be reviewed in November, with oral argument set for November 24th. The Justice Department also filed its merits brief in the case. Denniston reports the Government has argued "its agreement not to send the 17 Uighurs back to China, where they fear torture or death, did not bar it 'from exercising its sovereign power' to deny them entry into the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on October 24, 2008 (boomark / email).