Yaser esam hamdi v donald rumsfeld biography
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YASER ESAM HAMDI v. DONALD H. RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, et al.
ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
June 28,
Justice OConnor announced the judgment of the Court and delivered an opinion, in which The Chief Justice, Justice Kennedy, and Justice Breyer join.
At this difficult time in our Nations history, we are called upon to consider the legality of the Governments detention of a United States citizen on United States soil as an enemy combatant and to address the process that is constitutionally owed to one who seeks to challenge his classification as such. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that petitioners detention was legally authorized and that he was entitled to no further opportunity to challenge his enemy-combatant label. We now vacate and remand. We hold that although Congress authorized the detention of combatants in the narrow circumstances alleged here, due process demands that a citizen held in the United States as an enemy combatant be given a meaningful opportunity to contest the factual basis for that detention before a neutral decisionmaker.
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Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
For the case involving Guantanamo military commissions, see Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
United States Supreme Court case
| Hamdi v. Rumsfeld | |
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Supreme Court of the United States | |
| Full case name | Yaser Esam Hamdi and Esam Fouad Hamdi as next friend of Yaser Esam Hamdi, Petitioners v. Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, et al. |
| Citations | U.S (more) S. Ct. ; L. Ed. 2d ; U.S. LEXIS ; 72 U.S.L.W. ; Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S |
| Argument | Oral argument |
| Opinion announcement | Opinion announcement |
| Prior | Order for attorney access granted, E.D. Va., ; reversed and remanded, F.3d (4th Cir. ); motion to dismiss denied, F. Supp. 2d (E.D. Va. ); reversed and remanded, F.3d (4th Cir. ); rehearing denied, F.3d (4th Cir. ); cert. granted, U.S. (). |
| Subsequent | Remanded to district court, F.3d (4th Cir. ) |
| U.S. citizens designated as enemy combatants by the Executive Branch have a right to challenge their detainment under the Due Process Clause. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded. | |
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