Opinion
Civil Action No. 05-0490 (PLF).
April 1, 2005
ORDER
This matter is before the Court on petitioner's motion for a preliminary injunction enjoining respondents from removing him from the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and rendering him to the custody of a foreign country without 30 days' advance notice to petitioner's counsel and leave of court. Upon consideration of the arguments of the parties, and in view of the Opinion and Order issued by Judge Henry Kennedy in Abdah v. Bush, Civil No. 04-1254 (D.D.C. Mar. 29, 2005), granting a substantially identical motion for preliminary injunction filed by petitioners in that case and the Memorandum Order issued by Judge Urbina inAl-Oshan, et al. v. Bush, Civil No. 05-0520 (D.D.C. Mar. 31, 2005), ordering the government to give petitioners' counsel 30 days' advance notice before removing petitioners from Guantanamo Bay, it is hereby
ORDERED that the respondents, their agents, servants, employees, confederates, and any persons acting in concert or participation with them, or having actual or implicit knowledge of this Order by personal service or otherwise, may not remove petitioner from the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base unless this court and counsel for petitioners receive thirty days' advance notice of such removal; and it is
FURTHER ORDERED that in light of this order, [5] petitioners' motion for preliminary injunction is DENIED as moot.
SO ORDERED.