Description |
371 pages ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-352) and index. |
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. |
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. |
Subject |
Haitian Centers Council, Inc. -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Haitian Centers Council, Inc. (OCoLC)fst01536340
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United States -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
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Detention of persons -- United States.
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Haitians -- Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.
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Detention of persons. (OCoLC)fst00891620
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Haitians. (OCoLC)fst00950478
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Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc.
(OCoLC)fst01092822
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Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.
(OCoLC)fst01228663
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Genre/Form |
Trials, litigation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01423712
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Other Form: |
Online version: Goldstein, Brandt. Storming the court. New York : Scribner, c2005 (OCoLC)656292269 |
ISBN |
9780743230018 |
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0743230019 |
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