Hufaiza Parhat V. Gates
On Monday June 23, 2008 it was announced that a three judge panel of the D.C. Circuit, made up of David B. Sentelle, Merrick B. Garland and Thomas B. Griffith, overturned the determination of Hufaiza Parhat's Combatant Status Review Tribunal on Friday June 20, 2008.
Parhat's was the first case to be ruled on since the Supreme Court's ruling in Boumediene v. Bush. However, the ruling was made under a section of the Detainee Treatment Act. The court held that even under the government's own interpretation of the statute, it has failed to offer sufficiently reliable evidence for its determination that Parhat was an enemy combatant.
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