Mamet v. Bush

Mamet v. Bush (Civil Action No. 04-cv-1886) is a writ of habeas corpus filed on behalf of Guantanamo captive 102 Edham Mamet. On 26 July 2004 US District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly amalgamated this petition with several others in Al Odah v. Bush.

However, in 2005, a new petition was submitted on his behalf, under the name Nag Mohammed. The Department Of Defense did not publish an official list of captives names until it was forced to do so by a court order from Jed S. Rakoff. The 2005 petition Nag Mohammed v. George W. Bush is known as Civil Action No. 05-cv-1602.

Military Commissions Act

The Military Commissions Act of 2006 mandated that Guantanamo captives were no longer entitled to access the US civil justice system, so all outstanding habeas corpus petitions were stayed.

Boumediene v. Bush

On June 12 2008 the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Boumediene v. Bush, that the Military Commissions Act could not remove the right for Guantanamo captives to access the US Federal Court system. And all previous Guantanamo captives' habeas petitions were eligible to be re-instated. The judges considering the captives' habeas petitions would be considering whether the evidence used to compile the allegations the men and boys were enemy combatants justified a classification of "enemy combatant".