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Husayn v. Gates

United States District Court, D. Columbia
Mar 4, 2009
Civil Action No. 08-1360 (RWR) (D.D.C. Mar. 4, 2009)

Opinion

Civil Action No. 08-1360 (RWR).

March 4, 2009


ORDER


Guantánamo Bay detainee Zayn Husayn, also known as Abu Zubaydah, has petitioned for habeas corpus relief. A Memorandum Opinion and Order issued on November 28, 2008 granted Husayn's counsel access to his medical records. The Order required the respondent to file a memorandum and proposed order addressing any proposed redactions that the respondents would make to the records. The respondents timely filed such a memorandum with two proposed areas of redaction. First, the respondents proposed redacting all treatment-providers' identifying information from the responsive records. Second, the respondents proposed redacting "certain, limited information based on a determination that Petitioner's counsel does not have the requisite need-to-know the information." Respondents' first request is well taken, but their second request is not. The petitioner's counsel has a security clearance and is presumed to have a need to know the information that he is requesting. Accordingly, it is hereby

ORDERED that respondents will provide to petitioner's counsel within two business days of the entry of this Order copies of the records responsive to the November 28, 2008 Order, with treatment providers' identifying information redacted, and without redactions based upon petitioner's counsel's purported lack of a need to know the information.


Summaries of

Husayn v. Gates

United States District Court, D. Columbia
Mar 4, 2009
Civil Action No. 08-1360 (RWR) (D.D.C. Mar. 4, 2009)
Case details for

Husayn v. Gates

Case Details

Full title:ZAYN HUSAYN, Petitioner, v. ROBERT GATES, Respondent

Court:United States District Court, D. Columbia

Date published: Mar 4, 2009

Citations

Civil Action No. 08-1360 (RWR) (D.D.C. Mar. 4, 2009)

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