464 F. Supp. 2d 9 - Hamdan v. Rumsfeld’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 3 district ·

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1. “[n]ot one of the cases mentioned in Rasul held that an alien captured abroad and detained outside the United States — or in `territory over which the United States exercises exclusive jurisdiction and control,' Rasul, 542 U.S. at 475, 124 S.Ct. 2686 — had a common law or constitutionally protected right to the writ of habeas corpus.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Boumediene v. Bush

2. “Rasul refers to several English and American cases involving varying combinations of territories of the Crown and relationships between the petitioner and the country in which the writ was sought. See id. But as Judge Robertson found in Hamdan,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Boumediene v. Bush

3. “) (stating that a detainee at Guantanamo Bay "has not become a part of the population enough to separate himself from the common law tradition generally barring non-resident enemy aliens from accessing courts in wartime”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 479 F. Supp. 2d 85 - In Re Iraq and Afghanistan Detainees Litigation