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Article: Feds to justices: Dismiss appeal on detainees' behalf; Supreme Court plea: Government says the group has no authority to bring action for Guantanamo Bay inmates
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
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- April 9, 2003
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Afghan war prisoners detained at the Guantanamo
Bay Naval Base in Cuba have no rights in U.S. courts and cannot be
represented by a group of clergy, professors and attorneys, the
Justice Department argues in a brief filed with the Supreme Court.
The filing urged the court to let stand a November ruling by the
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco that concluded the
Coalition of Clergy, Lawyers and Professors had no authority to bring
legal action on the prisoners' behalf.
The California-based coalition is demanding the government provide
the roughly 660 detainees from 42 countries with lawyers, define
charges against them, detail their identities and allow them ...