UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
HAMOUD ABDULAH HAMOUD )
HASSAN AL WADY )
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Petitioner, )
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v. ) Civil Action No. 08-CV-01237 (RMU)(AK)
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BARACK OBAMA, et al. )
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Respondents. )
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ORDER
Upon consideration of Petitioner Al Wady’s Renewed Motion for Direct Contact with
Client [87], the Respondents’ Opposition [92], Petitioner’s Reply [95], Respondents’
Supplemental Filing [108], and Petitioner’s Response [109] it is this _1st_ day of May, 2009,
hereby
ORDERED that Respondents shall make a good faith effort to require that Mr. Al Wady
be moved to a hearing room to meet with his designated counsel for the purpose of counsel
explaining their role as counsel and his rights as a habeas petitioner and ultimately ascertaining
whether his refusal of counsel is knowing and voluntary, but that at no time shall Respondents
resort to forced cell extraction. In the event that Petitioner, upon being shown and read the
corresponding order of this date requiring him to meet with counsel for the purposes described
therein, continue to refuse to leave his cell, the parties should so notify this Court within 72
hours.
SO ORDERED.
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ALAN KAY
UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE