KHAN v. OBAMA

Civil Action No. 08-1101 (JDB).

741 F.Supp.2d 1 (2010)

Shawali KHAN, Petitioner, v. Barack H. OBAMA, et al., Respondents.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

September 3, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard C. Goodman, H. Candace Gorman, Law Office of H. Candace Gorman, Chicago, IL, Gitanjali Gutierrez, New York, NY, Kent Spriggs, Spriggs Law Firm, Tallahassee, FL, for Petitioner.

Frederick Sherwood Young, Judry Laeb Subar, Kristofer Ryan McDonald, Mary Elizabeth Carney, Scott Douglas Levin, Scott Michael Marconda, Alexander Kenneth Haas, David P. Avila, David Hugh White, Julia A. Berman, Kathryn Celia Mason, Patrick D. Davis, Robert J. Prince, Terry Marcus Henry, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondents.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

JOHN D. BATES, District Judge.

Shawali Khan, an Afghan citizen, has been in United States custody since mid-November 2002, and has been detained at the United States Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, since early 2003. Contending that he is unlawfully detained under the Authorization for Use of Military Force ("AUMF"), Pub. L. No. 107-40, 115 Stat. 224 (2001), Khan filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in this Court. The...

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