scheduling order

1. Status Reports. By July18, 2008, the parties shall each file concise reports
summarizing the status of each case. If applicable, counsel involved with multiple cases (versus
multiple petitioners in a single case) may, solely for the purpose of submitting a single status
report, consolidate their cases.
2. Joint Report. By July 21, 2008, petitioners and the government shall submit a joint
report that:
A. includes a proposed amended protective order and a separate proposed
protective order for use in cases involving “high-value detainees”;
B. identifies duplicate petitions that were filed on behalf of a single individual,
and addresses which of the duplicate petitions should be dismissed;
C. identifies petitioners currently detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, whose
cases were dismissed on jurisdictional grounds, and addresses whether the Court should vacate
such dismissals;
E. identifies petitioners who are cleared or authorized for release and the type of
such release—e.g., whether the petitioner is authorized for release and the government is simply
seeking a receiving country or whether the petitioner is authorized for release to detention in
another country—and addresses any objection to consolidation of such cases before one Judge of
this Court;
F. identifies all Boumediene-related motions to dismiss and motions to stay that
are still pending, and addresses whether such motions are moot;
G. identifies all pending motions that are ripe for decision, and suggests the
appropriate time to address such motions and whether they are amenable to common resolution
by the undersigned;
H. identifies the cases in which a stay was entered, and addresses whether the
Court should lift all such stays;
I. identifies the cases in which an appeal or a petition for certiorari is pending;
and
J. includes proposals on how the undersigned should conduct regular status
conferences.
K. reports on any agreement for the government to provide unclassified portions
of the CSRT records to petitioners who have had their CSRT reviews by July 31, 2008.
3. Simultaneous Briefing on Procedural Framework Issues. By July 25, 2008,
counsel for petitioners and the government shall each file one brief addressing the following
issues relating to the procedural framework in which these cases will be resolved and whether
such issues are amenable to common resolution:
A. the scope of discovery;
B. the standard for obtaining an evidentiary hearing;
C. the standard governing hearsay evidence;
D. the application of confrontation and compulsory process rights; and
E. the relevant standards of proof and burdens of production and persuasion, and
any burden shifting.
Counsel for petitioners and the government shall file responses by August 1, 2008.
4. Factual Returns. Beginning with the earliest filed petitions of petitioners currently
held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the government shall file factual returns and motions to amend
factual returns on a rolling basis at a rate of at least 50 per month.1 The first 50 factual returns
and motions to amend factual returns are due by August 29, 2008. If the government wishes to
amend a factual return, it shall move to amend and attach to its motion the proposed amended
factual return. The Court will allow amendment only where the government establishes cause for
the amending. Additionally, if the government believes that an individual factual return is
significantly more complicated than others or a particular detainee’s circumstances present
unique issues that require more time to complete the return such that processing the return would
delay the overall processing, the government shall move for an exception to the sequencing
described above. As with amendments, the Court will only allow exceptions where the
government establishes cause. Similarly, any petitioners who have extraordinary circumstances
may move before this Court for an exception to the sequencing described above.
[FN 1: At this time pending further order of the Court, the government need not file factual
returns or motions to amend factual returns for the approximately 20 detainees charged with war
crimes under the Military Commissions Act of 2006.]
SO ORDERED.
July 11, 2008 /s/
Thomas F. Hogan
United States District Judge