Shaker Aamer v. Barack Obama

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “a handful of state appellate courts have rejected prison officials’ attempts to force-feed particular inmates,” but most were “applying state law” and faced “unique factual circumstances”
• finding that prisoners bringing a conditions-of-confinement claim where they were force-fed while attempting a hunger strike was appropriate under a habeas petition
• holding that prisoners can challenge the form of detention under habeas
• holding that prisoners can challenge the form of detention under habeas
• assuming that the substantive due process “right to be free from unwanted medical treatment” applies at Guantanamo and rejecting detainees’ claims on the merits
• explaining that “the fact” and “duration” of detention “lie at the heart of habeas corpus”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).