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The district court found that adjudicating Al-Nashiri's habeas petition would unduly interfere with the proceedings of the military commission and accordingly granted the government's motion to hold the case in abeyance pending the resolution of his military-commission trial and any subsequent appeals.
- in In re al-Nashiri, 2016 and 7 similar citations
In an alternative ruling on Al-Nashiri's motion for a preliminary injunction, the district court did state that Al-Nashiri failed to show the sort of irreparable injury necessary to obtain injunctive relief.
- in In re al-Nashiri, 2016 and one similar citation
The US military did not recognize the existence of an armed conflict when the USS Cole was bombed (the author commanded a Navy frigate at the time), and the US response relied solely on peacetime measures and criminal law processes
- in Withdrawal from Afghanistan Marks Guantanamo's Endpoint and one similar citation
Chief Judge Richard W. Roberts denied the injunction and declined to exercise equitable jurisdiction over the habeas petition during the pendency of the military commission trial
- in The Virtues of Abstention: Separation of Powers in Al-Nashiri II and one similar citation
—four other district courts have relied upon Councilman to decline to entertain pre-trial challenges to the commissions Congress created in response to Hamdan under the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA
- in The Demise of Merits-Based Adjudication in Post-9/11 National Security … and one similar citation
Just to take one example, the Al-Nashiri litigation raises fundamental questions about the temporal jurisdiction of the military commissions (and whether they can try pre-9/11 offenses) and the constitutional composition of the intermediate Court of Military Commission Review (and whether military judges serving on it are “principal officers” for purposes of the …
—court refused to label this delay excessive because of Al-Nashiri's failure to contest the postponement of his trial.
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