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One tall young man scans the white sheets taped to the window, then briskly walks away. Another girl lingers, her brow furrowed as her eyes trail down the register. On the other side of the glass, a disappointed student collapses into an armchair, course guide in hand. �...
Four years ago, when Scott Denenberg was choosing a college, he was told that if he was looking to play tennis, Harvard was not the place for him. Denenberg made Harvard his place nonetheless, and, through three-and-a-half years of grueling work, proved he belongs on the courts...
American citizens and foreigners incarcerated inside the U.S. have the right under most circumstances to challenge their detention before a judge. But the Justice Department has argued that foreign "enemy combatants" held outside the U.S. do not enjoy this constitutional protection, even though the Guantanamo base is under full U.S...
A federal appeals court in Washington Tuesday upheld a key provision of a controversial anti-terrorism law signed by President Bush last year that removed the rights of Guantanamo prisoners to challenge their detention before U.S. courts. Known as the Military Commissions Act, the law permits the U.S. to indefinitely...
"We must now look to Congress and the Supreme Court to restore this fundamental American right, the right of habeas corpus, which allows prisoners to challenge their detention," said Marc Falkoff, a legal adviser to prisoners and a professor at Northern Illinois University College of Law.