Storming the Court
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Storming the Court

How a Band of Yale Law Students Sued the President--and Won

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eBook - ePub

Storming the Court

How a Band of Yale Law Students Sued the President--and Won

About this book

The David vs. Goliath story of the unflagging Yale Law School students who in 1992 fought the U.S. Government all the way to the Supreme Court. In 1992, three hundred innocent Haitian men, women, and children who had qualified for political asylum in the United States were detained at GuantĆ”namo Bay, Cuba—and told they might never be freed. Charismatic democracy activist Yvonne Pascal and her fellow refugees had no contact with the outside world, no lawyers, and no hope...until a group of inspired Yale Law School students vowed to free them. Pitting the students and their untested professor Harold Koh against Kenneth Starr, the Justice Department, the Pentagon, and Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, this real-life legal thriller takes the reader from the halls of Yale and the federal courts of New York to the slums of Port-au-Prince and the windswept hills of GuantĆ”namo Bay and ultimately to the U.S. Supreme Court. Written with grace and passion, Storming the Court captures the emotional highs and despairing lows of a legal education like no other—a high-stakes courtroom campaign against the White House in the name of the greatest of American values: freedom.

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Information

Publisher
Scribner
Year
2005
Print ISBN
9781416535157
eBook ISBN
9780743274760
Topic
Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Colophon
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. One: The Coup
  8. Two: Filing a New Lawsuit
  9. Three: Picking a Judge
  10. Four: Fighting the Stay
  11. Five: The Floating Wall
  12. Six: Going to GuantƔnamo
  13. Seven: Waiting for the President
  14. Eight: The Hunger Strike
  15. Nine: The Supreme Court
  16. Ten: The Trial
  17. Eleven: Victory and Loss
  18. Epilogue: The Aftermath
  19. The Characters
  20. List of Terms
  21. Notes and Sources
  22. Acknowledgments
  23. Index