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Johnson v. Eisentrager
- In Johnson v. Eisentrager
…ruled in 1950 that nonresident enemy aliens do not have the legal right to petition U.S. courts for writs of habeas corpus—a prisoner’s petition requesting that the court determine the legality of his or her incarceration. This landmark Supreme Court case was reexamined in 2008 in light of the detention…
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