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Today in Hatim v. Obama, the Guantanamo habeas merits case briefed and argued this past November, the D.C. Circuit just issued a most interesting order. It is a show-cause order asking the parties whether they object to documents from the district court being unsealed. It reads:
It is ORDERED, on the court’s own motion, that the parties show cause why the district court’s memorandum opinion and order filed under seal on May 17, 2010, should not be unsealed. The responses may not exceed 5 pages and are due by 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, February 9, 2011.The D.C. Circuit seems to be referring to an order and opinion disposing of a motion by the government to correct the record. That motion, from April 2010, was filed four months after Judge Urbina issued his public opinion in the case--the matter currently on appeal. It is unclear how this order affects the case before the D.C. Circuit.
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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