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Dec. 20, 2003

9th Circuit Says Detentions Are Grave, Startling

SAN FRANCISCO - In the second of two significant federal court decisions handed down Thursday regarding the rights of enemy combatants in the Bush administration's war on terrorism, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the government wrongly deprived 660 detainees at Guantnamo Bay in Cuba, access to courts, lawyers and even charges against them.

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By Pamela A. MacLean
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - In the second of two significant federal court decisions handed down Thursday regarding the rights of enemy combatants in the Bush administration's war on terrorism, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled tha...

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