U.S. Supreme Court case Boumediene v. Bush

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U.S. Supreme Court case habeas corpus case landmark decision

Boumediene v. Bush is a landmark 2008 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held foreign detainees at Guantánamo Bay have a constitutional right to seek habeas corpus review in federal courts.

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Label	Occurrences
Boumediene v. Bush	2
Boumediene v. Bush (U.S. Supreme Court case)	1
Section 7 of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 is an unconstitutional suspension of the writ of habeas corpus	1
U.S. Supreme Court case Boumediene v. Bush canonical	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	U.S. Supreme Court case ⓘ habeas corpus case ⓘ landmark decision ⓘ
chiefJusticeAtTime	John G. Roberts Jr. ⓘ
citation	553 U.S. 723 ⓘ
constitutionalProvisionInterpreted	Article I, Section 9 of the United States Constitution ⓘ surface form: Article I, Section 9, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution Suspension Clause ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
court	Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ
decisionDate	2008-06-12 ⓘ
dissentBy	Antonin Scalia ⓘ Clarence Thomas ⓘ John G. Roberts Jr. ⓘ Samuel A. Alito Jr. ⓘ
docketNumber	06-1195 ⓘ
fullName	U.S. Supreme Court case Boumediene v. Bush self-link ⓘ surface form: Boumediene v. Bush
held	U.S. Supreme Court case Boumediene v. Bush self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Section 7 of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 is an unconstitutional suspension of the writ of habeas corpus foreign detainees at Guantánamo Bay have a constitutional right to seek habeas corpus in U.S. federal courts ⓘ Suspension Clause ⓘ surface form: the Suspension Clause of the U.S. Constitution has full effect at Guantánamo Bay
impact	constrained executive detention authority in the war on terror ⓘ expanded constitutional protections for noncitizens held at Guantánamo Bay ⓘ limited congressional power to strip federal courts of habeas jurisdiction ⓘ
joinedByInMajority	David H. Souter ⓘ John Paul Stevens ⓘ Ruth Bader Ginsburg ⓘ Stephen G. Breyer ⓘ
legalIssue	application of the U.S. Constitution to Guantánamo Bay ⓘ habeas corpus rights of foreign detainees ⓘ suspension of the writ of habeas corpus ⓘ
locationInDispute	Guantánamo ⓘ surface form: Guantánamo Bay detention camp
majorityOpinionBy	Anthony M. Kennedy ⓘ
oralArgumentDate	2007-12-05 ⓘ
petitioner	Lakhdar Boumediene ⓘ
precedentOverruledOrLimited	Johnson v. Eisentrager ⓘ
relatedCase	opinion in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld ⓘ surface form: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld Hamdi v. Rumsfeld ⓘ opinion in Rasul v. Bush ⓘ surface form: Rasul v. Bush
relatedStatute	Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 ⓘ Military Commissions Act of 2006 ⓘ
respondent	George W. Bush ⓘ
result	denial of the government’s motion to dismiss detainees’ habeas petitions ⓘ remand to lower courts for habeas proceedings ⓘ
termOfCourt	October Term 2007 ⓘ
topic	executive power ⓘ national security law ⓘ separation of powers ⓘ war on terror ⓘ
yearDecided	2008 ⓘ

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