Legal Opinion
Khadr v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 20, 2008No. 07-1405PublishedCited by 242 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Chief Judge SENTELLE.
SENTELLE, Chief Judge:
Petitioner Omar Ahmed Khadr was captured on a battlefield in 2002, charged by the United States with war crimes, and referred to a military commission for trial. With this petition, Khadr seeks review of a preliminary procedural decision made in the course of the ongoing proceedings before the military commission. We dismiss the petition for lack of jurisdiction. The Military Commissions Act of 2006 limits our jurisdiction to review of “final judgment[s] rendered by a military commission” which have been “approved by…
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