The question of whether detainees held by the United States are “persons” under American law may yet again come before the Supreme Court, which already told a federal circuit court in Washington, DC, earlier this year to review its ruling that foreign nationals have no constitutional rights. Attorneys representing four British men who were held for two years at Guantánamo Bay before being released have filed a petition with the high court asking it to reconsider the DC ruling a second time. They’ve done so because after the Supreme Court told the lower court to review its decision, the DC justices reaffirmed in April their original ruling which maintained detainees enjoy no legal protections under U.S. law.