United States v. Zubaydah
U.S. Supreme Court · decided March 3, 2022 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Decided
- March 3, 2022
- Term
- October Term 2021
- Vote
- 6–3
- Majority author
- Justice Breyer
- Issue area
- Privacy
- Disposition
- Reversed and remanded
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
PRELIMINARY PRINT Volume 595 U. S. Part 2 Pages 195–266 OFFICIAL REPORTS OF THE SUPREME COURT March 3, 2022 Page Proof Pending Publication REBECCA A. WOMELDORF reporter of decisions NOTICE: This preliminary print is subject to formal revision before the bound volume is published. Users are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C. 20543, pio@supremecourt.gov, of any typographical or other formal errors. OCTOBER TERM, 2021 195 Syllabus UNITED STATES v. HUSAYN, aka ZUBAYDAH, et al. certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the ninth circuit No. 20–827. Argued October 6, 2021—Decided March 3, 2022 In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Central Intelligence Agency believed that Abu Zubaydah was a senior al Qaeda lieutenant likely to possess knowledge of future attacks against the United States. Zubaydah—currently a detainee at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base—says that in 2002 and 2003 he was held at a CIA detention site in Poland, where he was subjected to “enhanced interro- gation” techniques. In 2010, Zubaydah fled a criminal complaint in Po- land, seeking to hold accountable any Polish nationals involved in his alleged mistreatment at the CIA site ostensibly located in that country. The United States denied multiple requests by Polish prosecutors for information related to Zubaydah's…
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