John A. Chandler and a team of Sutherland and King & Spalding lawyers petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to hear the case of a Guantanamo detainee whose habeas grant was reversed by a federal appeals court in July-the first time the appeals court overturned a federal trial court’s ruling that a Guantanamo detainee should be freed.
In their petition for a writ for certiorari, they argue that the appeals court substituted its judgment of the facts for that of the trial court and imposed an “erroneous” standard of review that could impact an estimated 100 other habeas cases remaining to be tried.
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