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Updated GTMO Habeas Numbers

Larkin Reynolds
Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 5:26 PM
The recent decisions from the D.C. Circuit (the Mohammed dismissal and Uthman reversal), as well as some activity in the district court, meant an update to the habeas numbers was in order:

-       Uighur cases in which detention was deemed or conceded unlawful: 17

-       Petitioners’ district-court wins pending at D.C. Circuit: 3

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The recent decisions from the D.C. Circuit (the Mohammed dismissal and Uthman reversal), as well as some activity in the district court, meant an update to the habeas numbers was in order:

-       Uighur cases in which detention was deemed or conceded unlawful: 17

-       Petitioners’ district-court wins pending at D.C. Circuit: 3

-       Petitioners’ district-court wins not appealed by the government or cases in which the government’s initial appeal was later dismissed: 14

-       Petitioners’ district-court wins resulting in a remand by the D.C. Circuit to district court, with remand pending: 2

-       Petitioners’ merits wins at D.C. Circuit: 0

-       Government’s district-court wins not appealed by the petitioner, including cases in which the petitioner’s initial appeal was later dismissed: 2

-       Government’s district-court wins that will likely be appealed: 2

-       Government’s district-court wins pending at D.C. Circuit: 10

-       Government’s district-court wins resulting in a remand by the D.C. Circuit to district court, with remand pending: 2

-       Government’s merits wins at D.C. Circuit: 7

-       Post-Boumediene merits decisions in which cert. has been denied: 1

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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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