IN RE: GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEE LITIGATION

Filing 1797

MOTION to Lift Stay re (1161 in 1:09-cv-00745-RCL) Order on Motion to Stay by ABDURAHMAN LNU (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1- Declaration, # 2 Proposed Order)(Werneke, Vicki)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT COURT OF COLUMBIA ______________________________________ ) IN RE: ) GUANTÁNAMO BAY ) DETAINEE LITIGATION ) ______________________________________ ) ) ABDUL RAHMAN AHMED, ) a/k/a ABDUL AL RAHMAN AL ZIAHRI, ) a/k/a ABDURAHMAN LNU, ) ) Petitioner, ) ) v. ) ) BARACK OBAMA, ) President of the United States, et al., ) ) Respondents. ) Misc. No. 08-442 (TFH)

Civil Action No. 09-745 (RCL)

MOTION TO LIFT THE STAY ENTERED 4/29/2009 Counsel for Petitioner, Abd Rahman Ahmed, ISN 441, request the stay of this habeas action that was entered April 29, 2009, be lifted. The parties requested the stay of the proceedings in order to allow counsel time to obtain authorization from Mr. Ahmed. Doc. 1159. Since the issuance of the stay, counsel have met with Mr. Ahmed at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. At that meeting, Mr. Ahmed gave his verbal authorization for the Office of the Federal Public Defender to proceed in this habeas litigation on his behalf. See Declaration of Darin Thompson and Jonathan Witmer-Rich, Exhibit 1. Pursuant the order staying the proceedings, counsel for Mr. Ahmed notified counsel for Respondent, Kristina Wolfe, via e-mail, on May 29, 2009, that Mr. Ahmed wished to lift the stay in this case. Therefore, counsel for Mr. Ahmed request the stay be lifted in this habeas action and the litigation proceed in an orderly fashion.

Respectfully submitted, /s/ Vicki Werneke VICKI WERNEKE (LCvR 83.2(e)) Assistant Federal Public Defender CARLOS WARNER (LcvR 83.2(e)) Assistant Federal Public Defender AMY B. CLEARY (LCvR 83.2(e)) Attorney at Law Office of the Federal Public Defender, Northern District of Ohio 1660 West Second Street, Suite 750 Cleveland, Ohio 44113 Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone] Email: [e-mail] Email: [e-mail] Email: [e-mail] Counsel for Abdul Rahman Ahmed