Rumsfeld v. Hamdi

Vacated by Supreme Court, June 28, 2004 PUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT YASER ESAM HAMDI; ESAM FOUAD  HAMDI, as next friend of Yaser Esam Hamdi, Petitioners-Appellees, v. DONALD RUMSFELD; W. R. PAULETTE, Commander, Respondents-Appellants. RUTH WEDGWOOD, Professor of Law, Yale University Law School, and Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, Johns Hopkins University; SAMUEL ESTREICHER, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law;  No. 02-7338 RONALD ROTUNDA, George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law, George Mason…