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The CM Law Library Blog seeks to inform the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law community about key legal education, research, practice, and law library news, with a particular focus on Cuyahoga County and Ohio as well as faculty research interests.

Canada's Supreme Court Limits Detention of Foreign Suspects

Schuyler M. Cook | February 24, 2007 - 14:26

Canada's top court has spoken and limited that country's authority to hold terrorist suspects. Today's New York Times contains an article describing the Supreme Court of Canada's unanimous judgment. (pdf version)

Earlier this week, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals announced its decision upholding the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (passed by the Republican controlled Congress and signed by President Bush) which inter alia denies detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, habeas corpus relief.


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