LOCAL ATTORNEYS who represent Guantanamo Bay detainees were disappointed in last week’s federal court ruling that upheld a law passed earlier this year stripping noncitizen detainees of habeas corpus rights, but they said they expect the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately to settle the issue.
The ruling “is not going to affect the way in which we represent our two Saudis and two Yemenis,” said W. Terence Walsh of Alston & Bird. “We are going to keep pressing on until some bright light shines into that area known as Guantanamo.”
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