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Tomorrow is a Big Day for the Detainees: At Scotusblog, Lyle Denniston provides a "primer" detailing detainee cases that federal courts will hear tomorrow, and next week. He also comments on the significance of each of the cases. Beginning at 9:30 am a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit will hold a hearing in Bismullah, et al., v. Gates, to determine whether the D.C. Circuit has lost the authority to decide detainees? challenges under the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005. The DTA had wiped out the courts' authority to decide these challenges, but, Boumediene v. Bush found the current DTA to be inadequate. With the DTA process still intact under the ruling, the Justice Department is arguing Boumediene left open only one avenue of review for detainees - habeas...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on November 19, 2008 (boomark / email).