Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi, Petitioner v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al.

Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi, a detainee at the United States Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, asked the Supreme Court to review whether the government still had legal authority to keep detaining him. On June 10, 2019, the Court declined review and did not decide those underlying questions on the merits.

On June 10, 2019, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case; the prompt does not provide a vote count or opinion lineup.

That left the lower court's result in place for al-Alwi and matters for other Guantanamo detainees making similar arguments about whether wartime detention authority has lasted too long. For example, a detainee arguing that the Afghanistan conflict has effectively ended did not get a new Supreme Court answer here.

This Supreme Court docket action is over. The practical result is that al-Alwi remained subject to the lower court's ruling unless he pursued other litigation avenues outside this closed petition.

He asked whether the government still had legal authority to detain him under the Authorization for Use of Military Force and the Constitution. He also argued the relevant conflict had ended.

Al-Alwi was affected directly because the lower court's result stayed in place. Other Guantanamo detainees raising similar detention-duration arguments also did not get a new Supreme Court ruling.

This petition is finished at the Supreme Court. The lower court's decision remains in effect, and any further challenge would need a different procedural path.