Khalifh Voluntarily Dismissed
An important order in Khalfih v. Obama snuck under our radar last week. It is a dismissal order in a Guantanamo merits case, granted on the petitioner's motion.
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An important order in Khalfih v. Obama snuck under our radar last week. It is a dismissal order in a Guantanamo merits case, granted on the petitioner's motion. The motion and order follow several postponements of the briefing schedule, but it is otherwise unclear from the docket why petitioner Omar Mohammed Khalifh sought the dismissal of his appeal of Judge Robertson's May 2010 decision denying his habeas petition.
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.
