Uthman v. Obama
Petition for certiorari denied on June 11, 2012
Issue: (1) Whether the Authorization of Use of Military Force, Pub. L. No. 107-40, 115 Stat. 224 (2001) (‘‘AUMF”), authorizes the President to detain, indefinitely and possibly for the rest of his life, an individual who was not shown to have fought for al Qaeda, trained to fight for al Qaeda, or received or executed orders from al Qaeda, and was not claimed to have provided material support to al Qaeda; and (2) whether the AUMF, as applied by the court of appeals for the D.C. Circuit, violates the command of Boumediene v. Bush that “[t]he habeas court . . . [will] . . . conduct a meaningful review of . . . the Executive’s power to detain” an individual, and violates the Suspension Clause, U.S. CONST. art. I, § 9, cl. 2.
Briefs and Documents
Certiorari-stage documents
