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Litigation Forces DoD to Release Names of Some Gitmo Detainees
WASHINGTON, March 3, 2006 – DoD has released 317 "unredacted" records on detainees being held at the U.S. facility in U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The records, containing about 5,000 pages, are being released as part of an Associated Press Freedom of Information Act litigation decided in late January. A federal judge in New York ordered DoD release records of combatant status review tribunals and administrative review board summaries to the Associated Press by March 3.
Those documents were originally provided to AP, but with names and identifying information redacted for privacy reasons, as part of a Freedom of Information Act request in June 2005. "The court's ruling applies to those documents that have been provided under FOIA in June 2005," a senior official speaking on background said.
The list does not give the names of all 490 detainees being held at Guantanamo. Senior defense officials said the 317 records only cover the previously released redacted documents. These will be "unredacted," and names, nationalities and other personal identifying information will be released. Other protected information -- names of American service members for example -- will remain redacted, officials said.
There has been a lot of pharmaceutical litigation in recent news.
Recent lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies involved prescription drugs including: Accutane, Crestor, Celebrex, Vioxx, Baycol, Fen-Phen, Prempro & Premarin, Rezulin, and Zyprexa, to name a few.
Definition:
An order issued by the Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case for which it will hear on appeal.
In forma pauperis
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Informa pauper means literally ?in the manner of a pauper.? While the plaintiff makes claim of poverty, he/she has the permission to sue without paying court fees.
En-banc
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Court sessions with the whole membership present rather than the usual quorum is called en banc or ?full bench?. U.S. courts of appeals participate in panels of three judges and are then said to be sitting en banc.
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