MUHAMMAD HUSAYN v. GATES

Filing 113

ORDER: respondents to provide to petitioner's counsel records responsive to the November 28, 2008 Order within two business days. See Order for deadlines and information. Signed by Judge Richard W. Roberts on 3/4/2009. (DCL)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA _____________________________ ZAYN HUSAYN, Petitioner, v. ROBERT GATES, Respondent. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )

Civil Action No. 08-1360 (RWR)

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 First, the respondents proposed

proposed areas of redaction.

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-toknow the information." Respondents' first request is well taken, The petitioner's counsel has a

but their second request is not.

-2security 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. SIGNED this 4th day of March, 2009.

/s/ RICHARD W. ROBERTS United States District Judge