Adel Hamad v. Robert Gates

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• concluding that section 7(a) does not qualify as a bill of attainder
• noting that Boumediene did not address whether the due process clause applied to the Guantanamo detainees
• explaining that provision was meant to “ensur[e] that members of the armed forces are not unduly chilled in conducting the war on terror by concerns about foreign nationals targeting them with damages claims”
• “Jurisdictional limitations ... do not fall within the historical meaning of legislative punishment.”
• “Jurisdictional limitations ... do not fall within the historical meaning of legislative punishment.”
• “Congress’s decisions with respect to [Guantanamo] detainees are at the core of Congress’s authority with respect to ‘the conduct of foreign relations [and] the war power.’” (quoting Mathews v. Diaz, 426 U.S. 67, 81 n.17 (1976))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).