IN RE: GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEE LITIGATION

Filing 934

RESPONSE re 916 TO RESPONDENTS OCTOBER 31, 2008 STATUS REPORT filed by GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEE LITIGATION. (Lefrak, Allison) Modified on 11/6/2008 (nmw, ).

IN RE: GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEE LITIGATION

Doc. 934

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Ghanim-Abdulrahman al-Harbi, et al., Petitioners, v. George W. Bush, et al., Respondents. Civil Action No: 05-CV-2479 (HHK) Civil Action Misc. No. 08-442 (TFH)

PETITIONERS' RESPONSE TO RESPONDENT'S OCTOBER 31, 2008 STATUS REPORT REGARDING THE FILING OF FACTUAL RETURNS AND REQUEST FOR EXCEPTION FROM SEQUENCING Petitioner Ravil Mingazov responds to the Respondents' October 31, 2008 Status Report Regarding The Filing of Factual Returns And Request for Exception From Sequencing as follows: Respondents ask this Court grant it an extension for filing certain factual returns. In lieu of filing the fifty factual returns ordered by this Court to be filed by October 31st, 2008, the government has filed forty returns that comply with the Court's scheduling Order, and ten that do not. The government seeks in return that the Court retroactively grant it an extension to file ten factual returns, including the factual return for Petitioner Mingazov. On November 2, 2008, counsel for Petitioner Mingazov (Mr. Douglas Spaulding), conferred by telephone with counsel for Respondents (Mr. Terry Henry). Mr. Henry represented at that time that Respondents would "make every reasonable effort to file the [factual] return [related to Mr. Mingazov] in November [2008]". In light of this representation by Mr. Henry to

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Mr. Spaulding, Petitioner Mingazov does not, at this time, oppose Respondents' request for more time to file the factual return of Petitioner Mingazov.

Respectfully submitted, Dated: November 5, 2008 /s/ Douglas K. Spaulding Douglas K. Spaulding Gary S. Thompson Allison M. Lefrak Rick W. Roberts REED SMITH LLP 1301 K Street, NW Suite 1100 ­ East Tower Washington, DC 20005 Phone: [phone] Bernard J. Casey, D.C. Bar No. 112219 Casey ADR Services 3018 NE 32nd Place Portland, OR 97212 Phone: [phone] - and ­ CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS Gitanjali S. Gutierrez (NY1234) 666 Broadway, 7th Floor New York, New York 10012 Tel: [phone] Counsel for Petitioners

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on November 5, 2008 I caused the foregoing Response to Respondents' October 31, 2008 Status Report Regarding The Filing of Factual Returns And Request for Exception From Sequencing to be filed on the ECF system, for delivery to the below-listed counsel of record in the above-captioned matters: Andrew I. Warden United States Department of Justice Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch 20 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20530 Terry Marcus Henry United States Department of Justice Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch 20 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20530 /s/Douglas K. Spaulding Douglas K. Spaulding

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