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30 Oct 2012, 8:20 am by Kiran Bhat
Amnesty International USA, the Justices considered whether Amnesty International and a group of lawyers, journalists, and human rights activists have standing to challenge the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a federal law that provides for large-scale electronic surveillance of international phone calls and emails. [read post]
29 Oct 2012, 7:16 am by Lawrence Solum
Amnesty International USA] is whether the plaintiffs have standing to challenge a U.S. government surveillance program when they are not able to prove that they have been or are likely to be targeted. [read post]
3 Oct 2012, 5:15 pm by The Federalist Society
Amnesty International USA, regarding the right to challenge the constitutionality of a global terrorism wiretapping program; Amgen Inc. v. [read post]
11 Sep 2012, 6:44 am by Kiran Bhat
Amnesty International, USA. [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 8:55 am by David
According to Amnesty International only ten percent of countries in the world carried out the death penalty in 2011. [read post]
9 Aug 2012, 10:26 am by Steve Hall
To discuss this Inside Story Americas, with presenter Shihab Rattansi, speaks to: Jim Ellis, a lawyer who argued the 2002 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that executing intellectually disabled individuals is cruel and unusual punishment; Laura Moye, the Death Penalty Abolition Campaign director at Amnesty International USA; and Margaret Nygren, the executive director of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. [read post]
9 Aug 2012, 9:17 am by Steve Hall
  She's the director of Amnesty International USA's Death Penalty Abolition Campaign. [read post]
9 Aug 2012, 5:51 am by Cormac Early
At CNN, Laura Moye of Amnesty International’s USA Death Penalty Abolition Campaign responds to Texas’s recent execution of Marvin Wilson, whose IQ was sixty-one. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 9:14 am by Steve Hall
“While a majority of countries have stopped executing anyone, let alone people with mental disabilities, the USA continues to buck this global trend, with Texas all too often leading the way,” said Rob Freer, Amnesty International’s USA Researcher. [read post]
28 Jul 2012, 9:05 am
Arms Trade Treaty (that is, "to elaborate a legally binding instrument on the highest possible common international standards for the transfer of conventional arms") (prior post), had ended Friday without reaching an agreement: 'While we sought to conclude the month's negotiations with a treaty, more time is a reasonable request for such a complex and critical issue.' (credit) And here's Suzanne Nossel (left), Executive Director of Amnesty… [read post]
23 Jul 2012, 5:36 pm by Lyle Denniston
Amnesty International USA — right to sue to challenge constitutionality of global terrorism wiretapping program 11-697 — Kirtsaeng v. [read post]
6 Jul 2012, 1:30 am
Finch (left), policy director for women's rights, Amnesty International USA. [read post]
15 Jun 2012, 3:14 pm by Steve
An attainable goal would be something simple: a no brainer like real amnesty for Americans born abroad with little or no economic connection to the USA or a simple IRS announcement which says if you are an American living in a foreign country and you have thought about the Internal Revenue Code about as often as you think about moving to a fishing village north of the Arctic Circle, then forget about FBARs, FATCA, OVDI, or flooding the over-worked, underappreciated… [read post]
9 Jun 2012, 12:00 am
Department of State, was a congressional counsel, and was active in Amnesty International USA. [read post]
7 Jun 2012, 6:35 am
She's been: a board member of Amnesty International USA and of the National Security Network; a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations; an Executive Council member of the American Society of International Law; a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Fragile States; and a steering committee member of the White Oak Foreign Policy Leaders Project. [read post]
1 Jun 2012, 7:21 am by Jessica Monaco, ACLU
The plaintiffs include Amnesty International USA, Human Rights Watch, The Nation, the Service Employees International Union and the PEN American Center. [read post]
29 May 2012, 6:44 am by Joshua Matz
Amnesty International USA. [read post]
23 May 2012, 12:32 pm by Steve Vladeck
Amnesty International, and whether the FISA Amendments Act violates the Fourth Amendment. [read post]