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Author Goldstein, Brandt.

Title Storming the court : how a band of Yale law students sued the President-- and won / Brandt Goldstein.

Publication Info. New York : Scribner, [2005]
©2005

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  342.7308 GOLDSTEIN    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  342.73083 GOL    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  342.083 GOLDSTEIN    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  342.73 GO    Check Shelf
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.
Haitian Centers Council, Inc. (OCoLC)fst01536340
United States -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Detention of persons -- United States.
Haitians -- Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.
Detention of persons. (OCoLC)fst00891620
Haitians. (OCoLC)fst00950478
Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. (OCoLC)fst01092822
Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base. (OCoLC)fst01228663
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Trials, litigation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01423712
Other Form: Online version: Goldstein, Brandt. Storming the court. New York : Scribner, c2005 (OCoLC)656292269
ISBN 9780743230018
0743230019
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