Update on detainee cases

By Lyle Denniston
on Jan 4, 2008 at 10:21 am

The Supreme Court is now deliberating two cases on the legal rights of detainees. But those cases are merely the furthest along of a wide array of cases involving prisoners being held by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, or in other detention facilities.  David H. Remes, a partner at Covington & Burling in Washington, has prepared this roundup of the pending litigation.  He is counsel for prisoners in some of the cases listed.