The Justice Department yesterday withdrew one of its proposals to tighten restrictions on lawyers representing detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, but said it would continue to press a federal appeals court for a series of other limits on the lawyers.

In a filing Friday morning, Justice Department lawyers said they were no longer asking the appeals court in Washington to limit the lawyers to a total of three visits with detainees at the Guantánamo naval base, where about 380 men are now held.

A series of Justice Department proposals to curtail detainees’ lawyers drew wide attention and was criticized by legal groups and in Congress, with opponents saying the administration was denying detainees the most rudimentary tools to challenge their confinement.

“After further consideration of this issue by the Department of Defense,” the terse filing said, the government “is no longer seeking to incorporate a three-visit threshold for the number of counsel visits.”