Appellee Brief Available in Uthman v. Obama
Today in Uthman v. Obama, a habeas merits appeal before the D.C.
Today in Uthman v. Obama, a habeas merits appeal before the D.C. Circuit, the detainee's merits brief became available. The government is the appellant in this case, appealing Judge Henry Kennedy's decision granting Uthman's petition for habeas corpus. Readers may recall, from this post of Jack's, a story by Propublica's Dafna Linzer about the two different opinions released in the underlying district court case. The government's public merits brief is available here.
Larkin Reynolds is an associate at a D.C. law firm and was a legal fellow at Brookings from 2010 to 2011. Larkin holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she served as a founding editor of the Harvard National Security Journal and interned with the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps, and the National Security Division of the Department of Justice. She also has a B.A. in international relations from New York University.
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