Storming the court : how a band of Yale law students sued the President-- and won / Brandt Goldstein.
2005
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Title
Storming the court : how a band of Yale law students sued the President-- and won / Brandt Goldstein.
Published
New York : Scribner, [2005]
Copyright
©2005
Call Number
KF228.U5 G65 2005
ISBN
9780743230018
0743230019
0743230019
Description
371 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)60312025
Summary
"In 1992, three hundred innocent men, women, and children who had qualified for political asylum in the United States were forced into a detention camp at the American naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and told they might never be freed. Storming the Court takes readers inside this modern-day atrocity to tell the tale of Yvonne Pascal--a young, charismatic activist--and other Haitian refugees who had fled their violent homeland only to end up prisoners at Guantánamo. They had no lawyers, no contact with the outside world, and no hope...except for a band of students at Yale Law School fifteen hundred miles away."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical referencesand index.
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Table of Contents
The coup
Filing a new lawsuit
Picking a judge
Fighting the stay
The floating wall
Going to Guantánamo
Waiting for the President
The hunger strike
The Supreme Court
The trial
Victory and loss
Epilogue: The aftermath
The characters
List of terms.
Filing a new lawsuit
Picking a judge
Fighting the stay
The floating wall
Going to Guantánamo
Waiting for the President
The hunger strike
The Supreme Court
The trial
Victory and loss
Epilogue: The aftermath
The characters
List of terms.