Who was Ignatz Mezei and why should you care?
This man, who seems to have led a life of unrelieved insignificance, must have been astonished to find himself suddenly putting the Government of the United States in such fear that it was afraid to tell him why it was afraid of him.
Shaughnessy v. Mezei, 345 U.S. 206 (1953) (Jackson, J., dissenting)
http://internet.ggu.edu/university_library/if/Mezei.html It is a case that reverberates today as the legal fallout from the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, makes its way through the courts. Among the links across half a century: William H. Rehnquist, then a young law clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court and now its 79-year-old chief justice.
The Mezei case is being cited by both sides as Rehnquist's high court prepares to decide, as soon as Monday, whether to take up the cases of two groups of detainees at the special prison for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Like Mezei, they are non-U.S. citizens who are being held indefinitely, without charge, at water's edge. They, too, are seeking the right to confront their accusers in U.S. courts.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-ignatz1nov01,1,6373436.story?coll=la-home-todays-times