JOSE PADILLA v GEORGE W BUSH - Legal Case Documents


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JOSE PADILLA v GEORGE W BUSH

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Case Documents

AMICUS BRIEF
[ see first page and extracted highlights below ] ItemID: 130163

20 pages
PDF

2002-12-04

OPINION AND ORDER
[ see first page and extracted highlights below ] ItemID: 131136

125 pages
PDF

2002-06-19

AMENDED PETITION
[ see first page and extracted highlights below ] ItemID: 128747

7 pages
PDF

Total Documents: 3 documents , 152 pages

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1 . AMICUS BRIEF

EXTRACTED KEY WORDS

DETENTION
AMERICAN CITIZENS
UNITED STATES
LAW
GOVERNMENT
CIVIL LIBERTIES
PETITIONER
CHARGES
CONFINEMENT
COUNSEL
MILITARY BRIG
PADILLA
YORK
WAR
ENEMY COMBATANT
QUIRIN
CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
PREVENTIVE DETENTION
CONSTITUTION
NATIONAL SECURITY
INDEFINITE
PRESIDENT
SUPREME COURT
AUTHORITY
AUTHORIZE
UNITED STATES DISTRICT
EXECUTIVES
EMERGENCY
TERRORISTS

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
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JOSE PADILLA, DONNA R. NEWMAN,
as Next Friend of Jose Padilla,                                                :

                                                    Petitioners,               :

        -against-                                                              :
                                                                                      02 Civ. 4445
GEORGE W. BUSH, DONALD RUMSFELD,                                               :
JOHN ASHCROFT and COMMANDER M.A. MARR
                                                                               :
                                                     Respondents.
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       BRIEF SUBMITTED ON BEHALF OF  THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES
             UNION, NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION AND CENTER FOR
                       NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES AS AMICI CURIAE
                                                              Steven R. Shapiro (SS-9900)
                                                              Lucas Guttentag (LG-0329)
                                                              Robin R. Goldfeder
                                                              Amrit Singh
                                                              AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
                                                                 FOUNDATION
                                                              125 Broad Street, 17th Floor
                                                              New York, New York 10004
                                                              (212) 549-2500
                                                              Arthur N. Eisenberg (AE-2012)
                                                              Christopher T. Dunn (CD-3991)
                                                              Donna Lieberman (DL-1268)
                                                              NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
                                                                 FOUNDATION
                                                              125 Broad Street, 17th Floor
                                                              New York, New York 10004
                                                              (212) 344-3005
                                                              Kate Martin
                                                              CENTER FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES
                                                              1120 19th Street, N.W., Suite 800
                                                              Washington, DC 20036
                                                              (202) 721-5650
                                                              Attorneys for Amici Curiae

Dated: New York, New York
        September 26, 2002


                                                   TABLE OF CONTENTS

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK

BRIEF SUBMITTED ON BEHALF OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES

DETENTION OF AN AMERICAN CITIZEN ARRESTED IN THE UNITED STATES AND HELD IN AN AMERICAN

WITHOUT CHARGES, TRIAL, OR ACCESS TO COUNSEL

Petitioner's Confinement Without Charges Or Trial Is Unauthorized

By Law

Petitioner's Confinement Without Trial In A Military Brig Cannot

Be Justified As A Form Of Preventive Detention

The American Civil Liberties Union is a nationwide, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with

Since its founding in 1920, the ACLU has consistently taken the position that civil liberties

In support of that position, the ACLU has appeared before the Supreme Court and other federal

The ACLU has also opposed arbitrary and indefinite detention as a violation of due process in

The Center for National Securities Studies is a nonprofit, nongovernmental civil liberties

The Center has worked for more than 25 years to protect the due process rights of Americans

Jose Padilla is an American citizen.

"enemy combatant" by the government.

Although petitioner has apparently taken the name of Abdullah al-Muhajir, he is referred to

Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Ass'n, 489 U.S. 602, 635

it held that an American citizen arrested during the Civil War for aiding the enemy had a

for its decision to treat Padilla differently than other alleged terrorists arrested in this

parte Quirin, 317 U.S. 1.

Neither as a matter of law nor logic can Quirin be read as authority

Not only has Congress failed to authorize Padilla's detention,

it delegates to the President the authority to

of even American citizens if the President declared an internal security emergency.

2 . OPINION AND ORDER

EXTRACTED KEY WORDS

STANDING
COUNTRIES
ACTS
OPINION
UNLAWFUL
MUKASEY
MICHAEL
COURT
REHKOPF
DONALD
KATE MARTIN
DUNN
CHRISTOPHER
EISENBERG
ARTHUR
LUCAS GUTTENTAG
SHAPIRO

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                                    UNITED  STATES  DISTRICT                                       
                                    SOUTHERN  DISTRICT                                             
                                    ---I___------__-----______1________                            
                                    JOSE  PADILLA,                                             by  
                                    Donna  R.  Newman,  as  next  friend,                          
                                                                                                   
                                                                                                   
    4445        (MBM)

                                                                            -against-              
D  ORDER


                                    GEORGE  W.  BUSH,  DONALD  RUMSFELD,                           
                                    and  COMMANDER M.A.  MARR,

                                                                                                 
                                    --------~f__-----------~--~~~------                            

                                    APPEARANCES:

                                    Attorneys                                       for       
                                    DONNA  R.  NEWMAN,  ESQ.
                                    121                                West  27th  Street
                                    New  York,  NY  10001
                                     (212)                                   229-1516

                                    ANDREW  G.  PATEL,  ESQ.
                                    111  Broadway
                                    New  York,                                      NY  10004
                                     (212)                                   349-0230

                                    Attorneys                                       for       
                                    JAMES  B.  COMEY,  ESQ.                                        
RCUS,  ESQ.
                                    United                                     States         
  Department         of
                                    Southern                                      District         
                                    One  Saint                                      Andrew's       
             of  Justice
                                    New  York,                                      NY  10007      
a             Avenue,        N.W.
                                    (212)                                    637-2573              
    DC  20530-0001

                                    PAUL  D.  CLEMENT,  ESQ.

SNIPPETS:

STEVEN R. SHAPIRO, ESQ.

LUCAS GUTTENTAG, ESQ.

ARTHUR N. EISENBERG, ESQ.

CHRISTOPHER T. DUNN, ESQ.

KATE MARTIN, ESQ.

DONALD G. REHKOPF, ESQ.

THE COURT MAY CONSIDER

MICHAEL B. MUKASEY, U.S.D.J.

EXTRACTED KEY WORDS

JOSE PADILLA
UNITED STATES
RESPONDENT
COURT
PETITIONER DONNA
NEWMAN
DISTRICT
YORK
FRIEND
SOUTHERN DISTRICT
CHARLESTON
SOUTH CAROLINA
VIOLATING
ATTORNEY
CONSOLIDATED NAVAL BRIG
NAVAL BRIG
CONSTITUTION
RUMSFELD
DETAIN
DETENTION
SUPERIOR
AMENDMENTS
GOVERNMENT
DENIED ACCESS
REQUESTS
WRIT
HABEAS CORPUS
USC
LAW

JOSE PADILLA,

DQNNA  R. NEWMAN,  As Next
Friend of  Jose Padilla
                                                     l            02 Civ.  4445 (MBM)
                                                           .
                 Petikiaaers,
                                                     .
        -against-

GEORGE .W. BUSti
Ex officio  Commander-in-Chief  of  US                            .
Armed Forces                                         .
white  Heuse
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue                             .
Washington, DC

DONALD  RUMSFELD
Secretary of  D'efeue
The Pentagon
Arlington,  Va.,                               *
                                               l




JOHN ASHCROR                                   . .
Attorney  General
U.S. Dqartnmt  of Justice                      . *
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20530-0001                    .

COMMANDER  M. A. MARR                         :
Consoliclated Naval  Brig
1050  Remount Road
Charleston, South Carolina

                 Respondents,





1.     Jose Padilla,a  citizen of'the United States of America, is being held illegally,  denied

       to legal counsel, and denied access to any Court fat  the determination  of the legality of
                               I

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DQNNA R. NEWMAN, As Next

Friend of Jose Padilla

DONALD RUMSFELD

Jose Padilla,a citizen of'the United States of America, is being held illegally, denied awss

and denied access to any Court fat the determination of the legality of his

Donna R. Newman, Esq., on behatf of Mr. Padilla as his Next Friend, respectfuIly requests

that this Court issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus.

A Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus was previously filed with this Court.

Petition is submitted pursuant to 28 USC.

Respondents at the Consolidated Naval Brig in Charleston, South Carolina,

Petitioner Donna R Newmzut is an attorney duly admitted to practice law in the Southern