opinion in Rasul v. Bush

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United States Supreme Court majority opinion judicial opinion

The opinion in Rasul v. Bush is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision authored by Justice John Paul Stevens that held federal courts have jurisdiction to hear habeas corpus petitions from foreign nationals detained at Guantánamo Bay.

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Label	Occurrences
Rasul v. Bush	3
U.S. Supreme Court case Rasul v. Bush	1
opinion in Rasul v. Bush canonical	1

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instanceOf	United States Supreme Court majority opinion ⓘ judicial opinion ⓘ
author	John Paul Stevens ⓘ
characterization	landmark decision on habeas corpus and detainee rights ⓘ
citation	542 U.S. 466 ⓘ
concurrenceBy	Anthony M. Kennedy ⓘ
constitutionalContext	Article I, Section 9 of the United States Constitution ⓘ surface form: Suspension Clause of the U.S. Constitution
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
court	Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ
dateDecided	June 28, 2004 ⓘ
dissentingJustices	Antonin Scalia ⓘ Clarence Thomas ⓘ William H. Rehnquist ⓘ
docketNumber	03-334 ⓘ
effect	opened federal courts to habeas petitions from Guantánamo detainees ⓘ prompted the U.S. government to create Combatant Status Review Tribunals ⓘ
joinedBy	Anthony M. Kennedy ⓘ David H. Souter ⓘ Ruth Bader Ginsburg ⓘ Sandra Day O’Connor ⓘ Stephen G. Breyer ⓘ
jurisdiction	federal courts of the United States ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
legalHolding	federal courts have jurisdiction to hear habeas corpus petitions filed by foreign nationals detained at Guantánamo Bay ⓘ statutory habeas jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 extends to non‑citizens held at Guantánamo Bay ⓘ the degree of control the United States exercises over Guantánamo Bay is sufficient to trigger federal habeas jurisdiction ⓘ the habeas statute does not require that petitioners be U.S. citizens or held within sovereign territory of the United States ⓘ the precedent in Johnson v. Eisentrager does not bar habeas jurisdiction over Guantánamo detainees ⓘ
locationOfDetention	U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay ⓘ surface form: Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba
overrulesOrLimits	Johnson v. Eisentrager (to the extent it was read to bar habeas for non‑citizens held outside U.S. sovereign territory) ⓘ
partOf	opinion in Rasul v. Bush self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Rasul v. Bush
petitioner	Asif Iqbal ⓘ David Hicks ⓘ Mamdouh Habib ⓘ Shafiq Rasul ⓘ
relatedTo	U.S. Supreme Court case Boumediene v. Bush ⓘ surface form: Boumediene v. Bush opinion in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld ⓘ surface form: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld Hamdi v. Rumsfeld ⓘ war on terror detainee litigation ⓘ
respondent	Donald Rumsfeld ⓘ surface form: Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense George W. Bush ⓘ surface form: George W. Bush, President of the United States U.S. military officials responsible for Guantánamo detention ⓘ
statutoryBasis	28 U.S.C. § 1331 ⓘ 28 U.S.C. § 2241 ⓘ
subjectMatter	habeas corpus jurisdiction ⓘ rights of foreign nationals detained in the war on terror ⓘ scope of 28 U.S.C. § 2241 ⓘ
topic	extraterritorial application of U.S. law ⓘ separation of powers in wartime detention ⓘ

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