Public Merits Briefing Complete in Abdah v. Obama (Latif)
Today the final public merits brief became available in the D.C. Circuit case of Abdah v. Obama (No. 10-5319). The petitioner in this case is Adnan Farhan Abd Al Latif, who won his case before Judge Henry Kennedy in July of last year. Oral argument in the case has been scheduled for March 15, 2011.
Pertinent documents include:
The 2010 opinion granting Latif the writ
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Today the final public merits brief became available in the D.C. Circuit case of Abdah v. Obama (No. 10-5319). The petitioner in this case is Adnan Farhan Abd Al Latif, who won his case before Judge Henry Kennedy in July of last year. Oral argument in the case has been scheduled for March 15, 2011.
Pertinent documents include:
The 2010 opinion granting Latif the writ
The Government's opening brief
This case concerns Judge Kennedy’s treatment of the evidence. Essentially, the government argues that the judge gave too much credit to statements that Al Latif made in a 2009 declaration and too little weight to various reports the government submitted in support of its claims. The petitioner counters that Judge Kennedy's decision does not reflect clear error.
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.
