IN RE: GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEE LITIGATION

Filing 984

MOTION to Appoint Counsel (Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of Ohio, Substituting for Center for Constitutional Rights) by ABDURAHMAN LNU, EDRESS LNU, GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEE LITIGATION (Kadidal, Shayana)

IN RE: GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEE LITIGATION

Doc. 984

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA _____________________________________________ IN RE: GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEE LITIGATION Misc. No 08-442 (TFH)

MOHAMMON v. BUSH ____________________________________________

Civil No. 05-CV-2386 (RBW)

MOTION TO APPOINT AND SUBSTITUTE COUNSEL Undersigned counsel with the Center for Constitutional Rights currently represent two individual detainees, Edress LNU, ISN 35, and Abdurahman LNU, ISN 441, whose claims are part of the mass habeas petition filed in the above-captioned action, Mohammon v. Bush. Undersigned counsel hereby move the court to withdraw our appearances for these two individual petitioners and appoint in our stead the Federal Public Defender Office for the Northern District of Ohio as counsel for these two petitioners. Undersigned counsel has contacted A.J. Kramer, the Federal Public Defender for the District of Columbia. Mr. Kramer has contacted the Federal Public Defender Office for the Northern District of Ohio and that office has agreed to accept appointment as counsel for these two petitioners. Dated: November 13, 2008 Respectfully submitted, /s/sdk Shayana Kadidal (D.C. Bar No. 454248) Gitanjali S. Gutierrez (pursuant to LCvR 83.2(g))

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA _____________________________________________ IN RE: GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEE LITIGATION Misc. No 08-442 (TFH)

MOHAMMON v. BUSH ____________________________________________

Civil No. 05-CV-2386 (RBW)

[PROPOSED] ORDER The Motion of the Center for Constitutional Rights to withdraw as counsel for petitioners Edress LNU, ISN 35, and Abdurahman LNU, ISN 441 is granted, and The Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of Ohio is hereby appointed as counsel for these two petitioners. SO ORDERED, Dated: Thomas F. Hogan United States District Judge