Second, that CommonArticle3 of the Geneva Conventions represents a minimum standard of decency that must be applied to all detainees, without exception.
CommonArticle3 of the conventions, which relates to "non-international armed conflicts" -- the most common form of conflict in the world today -- is applicable to the situation in Syria.
Yet the justices granted the detainees only one specific right under CommonArticle3: the right to have any criminal charges heard by a "regularly constituted court"--one created by an act of Congress.