Legal Opinion
Latif v. Obama
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided October 14, 2011No. 10-5319PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Concurring opinion filed by Circuit Judge HENDERSON.
Dissenting opinion filed by Circuit Judge TATEL.
BROWN, Circuit Judge:
The United States appeals the district court’s grant of the writ of habeas corpus to detainee Adnan Farhan Abd Al Latif. Three errors in the district court’s analysis require us to vacate that decision. First, the court failed to accord an official government record a presumption of regularity. Second, the district court failed to determine Latifs credibility even though the court relied on his declaration to discredit the Government’s key evidence. See Al-Adahi v. Obama,…
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