Hatim v. Gates

Saeed Mohammed Saleh Hatim, a Yemeni national, is a prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. The district court granted Hatim’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus in December 2009. Hatim v. Obama, 677 F.Supp.2d 1 (D.D.C.2009). After the district court entered its order, this court issued decisions inconsistent with several of the district court’s legal premises. We see no useful purpose in reciting the evidence. The order granting the writ must be vacated and the case remanded. The district court candidly acknowledged as much when it issued a stay of its order pending this appeal.

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