January 2009 Ruling
On January 9, 2008, Douglas H. Ginsburg, writing for the panel, ruled that the court would not hear any additional DTA appeals.
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- "Had the Congress known its attempts to eliminate the habeas jurisdiction of the district courts would come to naught, it would not have turned around and created an additional and largely duplicative process by which a detainee could challenge his detention in the court of appeals."
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