Sliti v. Bush

Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

ADEL AL HAKEEMY Petitioner, Civ. Case No. 05-429 (RJL)

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BARACK H. OBAMA, et al.,

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oRDER (April L'l ,2009)

Before this Court is Petitioner al Hakeemy’s ("Petitioner" or "Hakeemy") Motion for a Competency Hearing and for an Independent Medical Examination. Petitioner filed this motion on December 22, 2006, with the Court Security Officer ["CSO"]. As a result of an intervening 60-day stay of the proceedings,' the Government filed its opposition to this motion on March 27, 2009. Petitioner replied on April 15, 2009. Based on a review of the pleadings, and for the reasons set forth by Judge Bates in his opinion in O.K. v. Bush, 344 F. Supp. 2d 44 (D.D.C. 2004), it is hereby:

ORDERED that petitioner’s Motion for Competency Hearing and Independent

Medical Examination is DENIED, and in light of this order, it is further

l On the same day it filed its motion requesting a competency hearing-the subject of this order-Petitioner moved for a 60-day stay of this litigation in the hope he would be transferred to another country [Dkt. # 200]. The Court granted Petitioner’s 60-day stay by minute order on December 30, 2008, and permitted the Government to respond to the instant motion after the stay had lapsed.

l ORDERED that the parties appear before the Court on 6 , 2009 at 3 or

a status conference.

SO ORDERED.

RICHA . LEON United States District Judge