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Law and Disorder March, 2005

 

Anniversary Rachel Corrie/More Renditions/Torture

Hosts Michael Ratner and Dalia Hashad discuss the anniversary of activist Rachel Corrie’s death in Gaza and the lawsuit filed against Caterpillar bulldozer.

Guest : Maria LaHood Lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights

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Guantanamo Prisoners Transferred

Guest: Barbara Olshansky – Lead attorney from the Center for Constitutional Rights

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More Renditions

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali who was believed to be kept in Saudi Arabia and tortured for information. He was brought back to the US by threatening the president through material aid to terrorism, the only witness is dead. Once he is brought back to the US, how is he treated?

Guest :Brad Adams from Human Rights Watch will join the show to discuss how two U.S. Pakistani citizens were picked up in Pakistan and are missing to this day.

Law and Disorder February, 2005

National Security/Tort Reform/Free Trade

Tort Reform Examined

An indepth with Steve Peskin and Shoshanna Bookson with the New York Trial Lawyers Association. Peskin and Bookson discuss how corporate welfare triumphs as insurance claims and are being capped.

“The National Security State”

A term described by Guest Michael Avery, former president of the National Lawyer’s Guild, Avery describes the many ways a citizen’s privacy is easily breached on several fronts in the United States.

U.S. Global Economic Entanglements

Guest Barbara Dudley discusses the Dark Secrets of Free Trade.

Law and Disorder January, 2005

Torture Memos/Rockefeller Drug Laws/Inauguration Lockdown

Law and Disorder hosts examine the torture memos made public by the Center for Constitutional Rights and an ACLU lawsuit.

Attorney Bill Goodman an attorney with Goodman and Moore, gives an update in the cases representing RNC protesters who were detained in horrible conditions.

Randy Credico, director of the William Moses Kunstler Fund For Racial Justice explains recent minor adjustments New York state has made to the harsh Rockefeller drug laws.

Attorney Mara Verheyden-Hilliard with the Partnership for Civil Justice and gives a sense of the military presence expected during the Bush/Cheney presidential inauguration.

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