Storming the Court How a Band of Law Students Fought the President--And Won

Name: Storming the Court How a Band of Law Students Fought the President--And Won
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ISBN: 9781416535157

ISBN-10: 1416535152

ISBN-13: 9781416535157

Edition: 2006

Authors: Brandt Goldstein

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In 1992, three hundred innocent Haitian men, women, and children who had qualified for political asylum in the United States were detained at Guantánamo 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…

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List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 12/12/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.44" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Brandt Goldstein, a 1992 graduate of Yale Law School, has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Slate. He writes a monthly feature for The Wall Street Journal online edition and is a visiting professor at New York Law School.