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NSA Surveillance of Electronic Communication Metadata: Remarks of Professor Perritt

by Gordon Waldron, Chair of the Chicago Council of Lawyers Civil Liberties Committee Chicago-Kent Law Professor Henry Perritt spoke at the January 10, 2014 meeting of the Civil Liberties Committee of the Chicago Council of Lawyers about surveillance by the National Security Administration (...

Chicago Attorneys urge President Obama to release 86 uncharged Guantánamo detainees

On July 25, 2013 a coalition of Chicago lawyers issued an open letter to President Obama, urging him to release the 86 detainees at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp who have been cleared since 2010 for release by the President’s own Guantánamo Review Task Force, consisting of various agencies inclu...

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Chief Judge Evans Orders Indigence Hearing Reform in Response to Chicago Appleseed Investigation

Chief Judge of the Cook County Circuit Court, Timothy C. Evans, issued General Administrative Order No. 2013-11 yesterday in response to a Chicago Appleseed investigation that uncovered a practice where judges were denying defendants a public defender without the required indigence hearing. The Chi...

Malcolm Rich Honored as a Legal Legend by the American Constitution Society

We are incredibly pleased to announce that Malcolm C. Rich, our executive director here at Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice, was honored as one of the American Constitution Society’s Legal Legends on July 18 at the ACS Chicago Lawyer’s Chapter 2013 Legal Legend’s Luncheon. Past honorees have inclu...

CCL Statement in Support of “Freedom from Drone Surveillance Act.”

Statement in Support of “Freedom from Drone Surveillance Act.” Senate Bill 1587 Engrossed Gordon Waldron, Chair of the Civil Liberties Committee, Chicago Council of Lawyers The Chicago Council of Lawyers supports the “Freedom from Drone Surveillance Act,” Senate Bill 1587 Engrossed. Surveillance by...

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