Legal Opinion
Maqaleh v. Rumsfeld
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided October 19, 2012No. Civil Action No. 2006-1669PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JOHN D. BATES, District Judge.
Before the Court are respondents’ motions to dismiss petitioners’ three amended petitions for habeas corpus. The petitioners are all third party nationals who have been held in various facilities at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan for nine years or more. Three years ago, the Court concluded that section 7(a) of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (“MCA”), Pub. L. No. 109-366, 120 Stat. 2600, was unconstitutional as applied to these petitioners and that they ’were therefore entitled to challenge their detentions through habeas corpus petitions.…
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