United States Ninth Circuit

No legal precedent precludes court's assertion of jurisdiction over a Guantanamo detainee's habeas petition. The Central District may exercise jurisdiction in this case because the Secretary of Defense is subject to service of process under the California long-arm statute.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/11/2003
• Decided 12/18/2003
• Published 12/18/2003

Judges

• Before:  REINHARDT, GRABER, Circuit Judges, and SHADUR, Senior Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen Yagman, Marion R. Yagman, Joseph Reichmann, Yagman & Yagman & Reichmann, Venice, CA, Erwin Chemerinsky, Duke Law School, Durham, N.C., for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John Ashcroft, Attorney General, Theodore B. Olson, Solicitor General, Paul Clement, Deputy Solicitor General (argued), Washington, D.C., for Respondents-Appellees.