A group of writers, journalists and activists filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court in January challenging a portion of the National Defense Authorization Act, which expanded the president's ability to hold a person in military custody indefinitely without access to a lawyer or the courts.
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U.S. District Judge Katherine B. Forrest made permanent a preliminary injunction she ordered in May. The U.S. government is appealing.
Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 12:03 am