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Justices Move to Define Detainees' Court Access

  • The Supreme Court wants to prevent detainees from "forum-shopping" among the dozens of federal district courts around the country.
 Supreme Court yesterday took a tentative but significant first step toward defining the right of court access it conferred upon detainees at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, issuing an order seeking a federal appeals court's opinion on where a detainee's case should be heard. [more]