United States Ninth Circuit

A coalition group lacked next-friend and third party standing to bring a habeas petition on behalf of persons captured in Afghanistan and detained by the U.S, and the district court lacked jurisdiction to decide that neither it nor any other federal court may properly hear the habeas claims.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/08/2002
• Decided 11/18/2002
• Published 11/18/2002

Judges

• Before NOONAN, WARDLAW and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen Yagman,Marion R. Yagman, Joseph Reichmann, Kathryn S. Bloomfield, Yagman & Yagman & Reichmann & Bloomfield, Venice Beach, CA, Erwin Chemerinsky, University of Southern California Law School, Los Angeles, CA, for the appellants., Jay Alan Sekulow, Stuart J. Roth, Robert W. Ash, Virginia Beach, VA, for the amicus.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General;  John S. Gordon, United States Attorney;  Paul D. Clement, Deputy Solicitor General;  Gregory G. Katsas, Deputy Assistant Attorney General;  Robert Loeb, Sharon Swingle, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the appellees.