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Supreme Court Reversed Denying a Petition Decision - 1st time in Sixty Years
US Supreme Court in surprise order sets hearing for Guantánamo prisoners
By John Burton
WSWS
2 July 2007
Last Friday, the Supreme Court reversed itself unexpectedly by granting the petition for review (certiorari) filed in two consolidated cases challenging the provision of last October’s Military Commissions Act that stripped prisoners at Guantánamo Bay of their right to habeas corpus. The case, filed on behalf of 45 prisoners by attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights at the New York University School of Law, is scheduled for argument next fall.
