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12/18/2003

NEWS: Court: Padilla Not Enemy Combatant

NEWS: Court: Padilla Not Enemy Combatant

I wonder if this is appealable to the Court en banc. As it is, this ruling came from a three-member panel selected from the court's full membership. This seems similar in form to the "No 'under God'" ruling from the 9th Circuit in California which was later taken up by the court en banc. Not being a lawyer, I don't know exactly how it works. Anybody know? Email me or leave a comment on this story, por favor.

FOXNews.com - Top Stories - Court: Bush Has No Power to Hold Padilla

NEW YORK — President Bush can't hold an American citizen seized on U.S. soil and suspected of being part of a "dirty bomb" plot as an enemy combatant, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.