English Wikipedia - The Free Encycl...
Download this dictionary
Rasul v. Bush
Rasul v. Bush
,
542 U.S. 466
(2004), is a
landmark
United States Supreme Court
decision establishing that the U.S. court system has the authority to decide whether foreign nationals (non-U.S. citizens) held in
Guantanamo Bay
were wrongfully imprisoned. The 6–3 ruling on June 28, 2004, reversed a
District Court
decision, which held that the
Judiciary
had no
jurisdiction
to handle wrongful imprisonment cases involving foreign nationals who are held in Guantanamo Bay. Justice
John Paul Stevens
wrote the majority opinion and was joined by
Sandra Day O'Connor
,
David Souter
,
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
, and
Stephen Breyer
, with
Anthony Kennedy
concurring. Justice
Antonin Scalia
filed a dissenting opinion and was joined by
William Rehnquist
and
Clarence Thomas
.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License