Petitioners' Briefs Filed in Detainee Cases

Published: August 24, 2007, 7:51 pm

Lawyers for detainees at Guantanamo Bay filed merits briefs today in Boumediene v. Bush (06-1195) and Al Odah v. United States (06-1196). The brief in Boumediene is coming soon, and click here and here to read the petitioners' briefs in Al Odah. The Justice Department's briefs in both cases are due October 9. Additionally, there were fourteen amicus briefs filed in support of the petitioners and another amicus brief filed in support of reversal. They are listed and linked after the jump. See Marty's post below for his inital reaction to one of the amicus filings.ACLU and Public Justice American Bar Association Amnesty International, Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association, International Federation for Human Rights, and International Law Association Association of the Bar of the City of New York Coalition of Non-Governmental Organizations Commonwealth Lawyers Association Federal Courts and International Law Professors Federal Public Defender for the

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