United States DC Circuit

On petitions for review brought by eight men detained at the Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba challenging the determination by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal that each is an "enemy combatant,": 1) the court of appeals orders that the record on review consists of reasonably available information in the possession of the Government bearing on the issue of whether the detainee meets the criteria to be designated as an enemy combatant; 2) petitioners' and the Government's motions for a protective order are granted in part and denied in part; 3) petitioners' motions for discovery and for a special master are denied without prejudice; and 4) the government's motion to consider the claims brought by petitioners in case number 06-1397 are granted.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/20/2007
• Published 07/20/2007

Judges

• Before:  GINSBURG, Chief Judge, and HENDERSON and ROGERS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John B. Missing, Jeffrey I. Lang, and Jennifer R. Cowan, for Huzaifa Parhat, et al., and Sabin Willett, Rheba Rutkowski, Neil McGaraghan, Jason S. Pinney, and Susan Baker Manning for Haji Bismullah, et al., were on the joint opposition to the petition for rehearing.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter D. Keisler, Acting Attorney General, Paul Clement, Solicitor General, Gregory G. Katsas, Acting Associate Attorney General, Gregory G. Garre, Deputy Solicitor General, Jonathan F. Cohn, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, and Douglas N. Letter, Robert M. Loeb, August E. Flentje, and Catherine Y. Hancock, Attorneys, U.S. Department of Justice, were on the petition for rehearing for respondent.