
Storming the Court
How a Band of Yale Law Students Sued the President--and Won
- 384 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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, Cubaāand 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 otherāa high-stakes courtroom campaign against the White House in the name of the greatest of American values: freedom.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Colophon
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- One: The Coup
- Two: Filing a New Lawsuit
- Three: Picking a Judge
- Four: Fighting the Stay
- Five: The Floating Wall
- Six: Going to GuantƔnamo
- Seven: Waiting for the President
- Eight: The Hunger Strike
- Nine: The Supreme Court
- Ten: The Trial
- Eleven: Victory and Loss
- Epilogue: The Aftermath
- The Characters
- List of Terms
- Notes and Sources
- Acknowledgments
- Index