[Peace] Fwd: ACLU awards brunch and speaker on Guantanamo

[Barbara kessel]

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From: Barbara kessel <barkes at gmail.com>
Date: Apr 18, 2007 12:39 PM
Subject: ACLU awards luncheon



I just found out that reservations for the ACLU brunch this coming
Sunday (11:30) must be in by today. You still pay at the door - $25 or
$15 for students and limited income. The speker is a pro bono lawyer
for some Guantanomo prisoners. Barbara Kessel

If you want to go and make your reservation, here is the link:

http://www.aclu-cu.org/index.html

"Great Impasta Banquet Facility - Downtown Champaign

Featured speaker: Gary Isaac

Gary Isaac received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1985, and has
practiced law at Mayer, Brown & Platt (now Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw)
in Chicago since 1986. Mr. Isaac has been involved in the Guantanamo
litigation since the Fall of 2003, when he co-authored two "friend of
the court" briefs in the Rasul case on behalf of retired military
officers - one urging the Supreme Court to hear the detainees' case,
and another urging the Court to hold that U.S. courts have
jurisdiction to entertain detainees' petitions for habeas corpus.
Since the Supreme Court's decision in June, 2004 in Rasul, Mr. Isaac
has played an active part in the group of attorneys bringing habeas
actions on behalf of the detainees. Mr. Isaac is co-counsel in John
Does 1-570 v. Bush, filed in 2005 on behalf of detainees whose
identities the Government has refused to disclose. Mr. Isaac was
deeply involved in the Fall of 2005 in lobbying members of Congress
against efforts to strip the courts of jurisdiction to hear the
detainees' habeas petitions. In November 2006, Isaac and two other
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw attorneys filed an amicus brief in Al-Marri
vs. Wright on behalf of Janet Reno and other former senior justice
officials advocating against the government's indefinite detention of
terrorism suspects arrested and held in the United States. Al-Marri
was arrested in Peoria on federal criminal charges in December 2001
and due to go to trial in 2003 when charges were dismissed with
prejudice; he has since been held without charge as an "enemy
combatant" in a military prison in South Carolina.