Early look at detainee motion
on Feb 28, 2007 at 1:31 pm
The Supreme Court will take up at its Friday Conference a plea by two Guantanamo Bay detainees to consider their appeal on an expedited basis, according to the Court’s electronic docket. The combined petition of Salim Ahmed Hamdan and Omar Khadr has been docketed as 06-1169 (Hamdan, et al., v. Gates, et al.)
Under the Court’s normal schedule, a response by the government to the petition for review would not be due until March 29.
If the Court does agree to expedite the case, and the federal government responds by March 21 to the petition, as Hamdan and Khadr’s lawyers have suggested, the Court will be asked to consider this and other coming appeals in detainee cases together at its scheduled Conference on March 30.
