Bump and Update: Lawyers for the Guantanamo prisoners have set up this website to keep the public informed about the legal case. The Washington Post has this later article on the case and the Supreme Court decision to hear it.

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Original post: 11/10/03 at 8:23 a.m.

The Supreme Court today said it will hear the case of detainees being held at Guantanamo :

The justices agreed to review a ruling that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to consider claims by a group of detainees held without access to their families or to lawyers, and held without any charges brought against them.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case next year, with a decision due by the end of June. It marked the first time the nation's highest court agreed to decide a case stemming from the Bush administration's anti-terrorism policies.

The appeals were filed in the Supreme Court by British, Australian and Kuwaiti citizens after lower courts ruled they did not have authority to hear the men's complaints.

More details of the case are available here.