The Solicitor General of the United States,the fourth-highest-ranking official within the United States Department of Justice,represents the federal government in cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. The Solicitor General is appointed by the President and reports directly to the United States Attorney General.
Rasul v. Bush,542 U.S. 466 (2004),was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held that foreign nationals held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp could petition federal courts for writs of habeas corpus to review the legality of their detention. The Court's 6–3 judgment on June 28,2004,reversed a D.C. Circuit decision which had held that the judiciary has no jurisdiction to hear any petitions from foreign nationals held in Guantanamo Bay.
Rumsfeld v. Padilla,542 U.S. 426 (2004),was a United States Supreme Court case,in which JoséPadilla,an American citizen,sought habeas corpus relief against Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld,as a result of his detention by the military as an "unlawful combatant."
Arthur Raymond Randolph is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was appointed to the Court in 1990 and assumed senior status on November 1,2008.
Thomas B. Wilner is the managing partner of Shearman &Sterling's International Trade and Global Relations Practice. Wilner has also represented the high-profile human rights cases of a dozen Kuwaiti citizens detained in the United States naval base at Guantanamo Bay,Cuba.
Abu Bakker Qassim,et al. v. George W. Bush,et al. (05-5477),is a case in which two Muslim Uyghurs challenged their detention at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP,also known as Hale &Dorr and WilmerHale,is an American multinational law firm with offices in the United States,Europe,and Asia. Co-headquartered in Washington,D.C.,and Boston,it was formed in 2004 through the merger of the Boston-based firm Hale and Dorr and the D.C.-based,firm Wilmer Cutler &Pickering. It employs more than 1,000 attorneys worldwide.
Melissa A. Hoffer is an American environmental lawyer currently serving as the Climate Chief of Massachusetts,the first to hold a seat of this kind in the country. Hoffer previously worked in the Attorney General of Massachusetts' office,the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF),and WilmerHale. She was a "day one" appointee to President Joe Biden's cabinet as Principal Deputy General Counsel and Acting General Counsel of the Environmental Protection Agency. As a lawyer,she headed cases including Boumediene v. Bush and Commonwealth v. Exxon Mobil Corp. She believes in a "whole-of-government approach" to climate change and that environmental issues should not be isolated to a single government department.
Stephen Kenny is an Australian lawyer. He acted as the original lawyer for David Hicks,a Guantánamo Bay detainee.
Nathan Lewin is an American attorney who has argued many cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
The Center for Constitutional Rights has coordinated efforts by American lawyers to handle the habeas corpus,and other legal appeals,of several hundred of the Guantanamo detainees.
Boumediene v. Bush,553 U.S. 723 (2008),was a writ of habeas corpus petition made in a civilian court of the United States on behalf of Lakhdar Boumediene,a naturalized citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina,held in military detention by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba. Guantánamo Bay is not formally part of the United States,and under the terms of the 1903 lease between the United States and Cuba,Cuba retained ultimate sovereignty over the territory,while the United States exercises complete jurisdiction and control. The case was consolidated with habeas petition Al Odah v. United States. It challenged the legality of Boumediene's detention at the United States Naval Station military base in Guantanamo Bay,Cuba as well as the constitutionality of the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Oral arguments on the combined cases were heard by the Supreme Court on December 5,2007.
Al Odah v. United States is a court case filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsels challenging the legality of the continued detention as enemy combatants of Guantanamo detainees. It was consolidated with Boumediene v. Bush (2008),which is the lead name of the decision.
In United States law,habeas corpus is a recourse challenging the reasons or conditions of a person's detention under color of law. The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. A persistent standard of indefinite detention without trial and incidents of torture led the operations of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp to be challenged internationally as an affront to international human rights,and challenged domestically as a violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth amendments of the United States Constitution,including the right of petition for habeas corpus. On 19 February 2002,Guantanamo detainees petitioned in federal court for a writ of habeas corpus to review the legality of their detention.
David H. Remes is an American lawyer.
Barbara Dale Underwood is an American lawyer serving as the solicitor general of New York. She was first appointed to the position in January 2007 by Andrew Cuomo,who was then serving as the state's attorney general. Underwood was reappointed in 2011 by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
Gregory G. Garre is an American lawyer who served as the 44th United States Solicitor General from June 19,2008,to January 16,2009. He is currently a partner at Latham &Watkins,a private law firm.
Ian Heath Gershengorn is an American lawyer and former acting Solicitor General of the United States under President Barack Obama.
Edward Carroll DuMont is a former Solicitor General of California. In 2010 and 2011 he was nominated by President Barack Obama to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In November 2011,however,DuMont sent a letter to President Obama asking him to withdraw his nomination to the judgeship. Obama withdrew DuMont's nomination on November 10,2011,nominating Richard G. Taranto in DuMont's place.
Brendan Ray Dassey is an American convicted murderer from Manitowoc County,Wisconsin,who at 16 confessed to being a party to first-degree murder,mutilation of a corpse,and second-degree sexual assault. He was sentenced to life in prison with the earliest possibility of parole in 2048. His videotaped interrogation and confession,which he recanted at trial,substantially contributed to his conviction. Parts were shown,but much was left out,in the Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer (2015). The series examined the 2005–2007 investigation,prosecution,and trials of Dassey and his uncle,Steven Avery,both of whom were convicted of murdering the photographer Teresa Halbach on October 31,2005.
