Cases

Relevant Cases

2006

 

Major Supreme Court Decisions

• Padilla v. Rumsfeld, Supreme Court, 28 June 2004.

• Hamdi v. Bush, Supreme Court, 28 June 2004.

• Rasul v. Bush , Supreme Court, 28 June 2004.

• Hamdan v. Rumsfeld , Supreme Court, 29 June 2006.

Lower courts’ decisions concerning Guantánamo detainees

• Qassim et al. v. Bush et al. , District Court for the District of Columbia, 22 December 2005.

• Qassim et al. v. Bush et al. , Court of Appeals for the District of Colombia Circuit, 14 August 2006.

• Khalid v. George W. Bush , District Court for the District of Columbia, 19 January 2005.

• Re: Guantánamo Detainee Cases , District Court for the District of Columbia, 31 January 2005.

Lower courts’ decisions concerning “extraordinary renditions”

• Maher Arar v. Ashcroft et al. , District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 16 February 2006.

• El-Masri v. Tenet et al. , District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, 12 May 2006.

Lower courts’ decisions concerning “National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program”

• ACLU v. NSA , District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Southern Division, 17 August 2006.

• Hepting et al. v. AT&T Corp. et al. , District Court for the Northern District of California, 20 June 2006.