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Human Rights
Experience
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El Salvadorean Asylum-Seeker
El Salvador Refugee Case
Obtained asylum for our client, a 15-year-old refugee from El Salvador, who fled to the United States after witnessing the murder of his best friend by members of the notorious gang, Mara 18.
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New York City Bar Association's Vance Center for International Justice Initiatives
Colombia Same-Sex Partnership Rights
Drafted an amicus brief for submission to the Constitutional Court of Colombia, that led to a landmark decision by the Court that same-sex couples are entitled to register their domestic partnerships and receive certain economic benefits on equal terms with opposite-sex couples.
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Ashoka Foundation
Ashoka Foundation/Friends of Integration Association “Barrier-Free Poland” Campaign
Assisted the Friends of Integration Association, a prominent Polish non-governmental organization that is focused on promoting the social integration of people with disabilities with drafting leaflets and a “law in practice” guide that instructs individuals on how to initiate administrative proceedings to remove obstacles that prevent disabled individuals from having access to urban infrastructure.
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Center for International Human Rights
U.S. v. Salim Ahmed Hamdan
David Berz is working with the Center for International Human Rights at the Northwestern School of Law, to prepare an amicus curiae brief in this matter. The defendant was charged with conspiracy to commit war crimes. He is being tried for his crimes by a Military Commission. The Center for Human Rights states that the hearings violate international due process requirements and standards set forth in the Geneva Conventions.
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Cameroonian Asylee
Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs/ Cameroonian Asylee
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP secured asylum on behalf of a Cameroonian widow who was abused and persecuted by her late husband's politically powerful tribal family.
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Guantanamo Bay Detainees
Abdulla Thani Faris Al-Anazi, et al. v. George W. Bush, et al.
Filed habeas petitions on behalf of five Saudi Arabian citizens held by the US at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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Sergio Suarez Martinez
Crawford v. Suarez Martinez
WGM filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of a number of major refugee resettlement and advocacy organizations,
including the International Rescue Committee and Immigrant and Refugee Services of America in the case, Crawford v. Suarez Martinez (No. 03-878).
The case examines the statutory and constitutional limits on the federal government’s ability to detain aliens (that is, non-US citizens) who have not been admitted as permanent residents and who are subject to an order of removal under the immigration laws requiring them to leave the country. The amicus brief argued that indefinite detention was inconsistent with various international treaties governing treatment of refugees, as well as principles of customary international law, and that the applicable US statute should be interpreted consistently with these international law doctrines.
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European Roma Rights Centre
In re School segregation case in Alsózsolca
Prepare a submission to the Equal Treatment Authority (ETA) requesting it to declare that the segregation of schools and kindergartens is a violation of equal treatment rights.
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Elmaghraby and Iqbal
Urban Justice Center/Detainees; Elmaghraby and Iqbal v. Ashcroft, et. al.
Weil Gotshal joined the Urban Justice Center and Koob & Magoolaghan to
represent detainees held by the US Government in the aftermath of the
September 11th attacks. Claims on behalf of plaintiff Ehab Elmaghraby were settled in February 2006, in the amount of $300,000, the first reported settlement between the U.S. Government and any persons detained in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. The case continues on behalf of plaintiff Javaid Iqbal. On June 14, 2007, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the vast majority of a district court ruling, holding that the exigencies of 9/11 did not entitle high-level officials to qualified immunity for claims related to religious and racial discrimination and the abuse plaintiffs suffered while detained in solitary confinement.
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Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch - Amicus Brief
Weil represented Human Rights Watch (HRW), a leading international human rights organization, as an amicus curiae before the Special Court for Sierra Leone. We argued that the activities of human rights workers are so vital to the ravaged communities that they serve and the public interest generally that their relationships with their informants must be subject to an absolute privilege as long as the worker is not testifying to the guilt or innocence of the particular defendant.
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Legal Aid Immigrant Disability Benefit Project
Legal Aid Immigrant Disability Benefit Project
Represented an elderly, blind and disabled immigrants lawfully residing in New York, being wrongfully denied necessary public assistance by New York State.
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