D.C. Circuit Grants Temporary Stay in Almerfedi
This afternoon the D.C. Circuit responded to the government's request for a temporary stay in Almerfedi v. Obama by granting the motion.
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This afternoon the D.C. Circuit responded to the government's request for a temporary stay in Almerfedi v. Obama by granting the motion. This means that the detainee, habeas petitioner Hussain Salem Mohammed Almerfedi, will remain in custody at Guantanamo Bay while the appellate panel of Judges Rogers, Kavanaugh, and Silberman considers in full the government's motion to stay the district court's release order.
The court also ordered the petitioner to respond to the government's motion by 4:00 PM tomorrow, with any government reply due the following day. Oral argument on the merits of the appeal is currently scheduled for April 11th.
We've discussed this recent turn in Almerfedi here and here.
Larkin Reynolds is an associate at a D.C. law firm and was a legal fellow at Brookings from 2010 to 2011. Larkin holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she served as a founding editor of the Harvard National Security Journal and interned with the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps, and the National Security Division of the Department of Justice. She also has a B.A. in international relations from New York University.
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