Georgetown Scholar’s Habeas Petition Stays in Virginia Court (1)

A Georgetown University scholar detained in Texas can keep his habeas petition in the Virginia district where he was arrested, a federal judge ruled.

The government’s “myriad contradictory explanations” combined with the inability of the plaintiff’s “exceptionally diligent counsel to keep up with Petitioner’s abnormal and rapid movement across state lines demands more flexible jurisdictional rules,” Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia said in a Tuesday opinion.

Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national who resides in Virginia as a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University, was arrested outside of his apartment ...