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(Via SCOTUSblog) The U.S. Court of Appeals has tossed out a bunch of pending habeus petitions from various people being held at Guantanamo Bay. Marty Lederman at Balkinization has digested the ruling so that us non-legal types don't have to, presenting a concise summary of the issues at hand. The ruling looks like all sorts of badness, but at least Mr. Lederman postulates that it won't hold up under review by the Supreme Court.