Rumsfeld v. Padilla

Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 542 U.S. 426 (2004)    

Padilla, a US citizen, when he got back from Pakistan, was intercepted in Chicago airport as a material witness, then as an enemy combatant. The enemy combatant status comes with an undefined imprisonment without any legal resources. He did a petition by habeas corpus against the secretary of defense. The Supreme Court denied the appeal on the base that it wasn’t correctly filled.

This content has been updated on 31 December 2016 at 11 h 37 min.