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Supremes Will Hear Gitmo Cases

Inmates seek right to challenge confinement in federal court

By M. Morris, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 29, 2007 10:25 AM CDT

(Newser) – Two Guantanamo Bay detainees will have their say before the Supreme Court, which today unexpectedly agreed to hear their cases in the term that begins this fall. The prisoners want permission to challenge their indefinite confinement in federal court. The high court had rejected an... Read full story »

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