Federal Judiciary

Amicus Briefs Filed in the “Cuban Five” Case

By Akin Gump Supreme Court Practice Group

Today we anticipate 12 amicus briefs to be filed in Campa, et al., v. U.S  (08-987), the Cuban 5 case, including one from a group of 10 Nobel Laureates. We’ll link to the briefs as electronic copies become available.

The petition for certiorari is available here.  The appendix to the petition is available here.  The most recent Circuit Court decision at issue is here. Our original blog post on Campa is here. Amici are below.

• Brief amicus curiae of Jose Ramos-Horta, Wole Soyinka, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Nadine Gordimer, Rigoberta Menchu, Jose Saramago, Zhores Alferov, Dario Fo, Gunter Grass, and Mairead Corrigan Maguire
• Brief amicus curiae of National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
• Brief amicus curiae of Cuban-American Scholars, et al.
• Brief amicus curiae of Ibero-American Federation of Ombudsmen, et al.
• Brief amicus curiae of National Jury Project
• Brief amicus curiae of William C. Velsaques Institute and the Mexican American Political Association
• Brief amicus curiae of National Lawyers Guild and National Conference of Black Lawyers
• Brief amicus curiae of The Civil Rights Clinic at Howard University School of Law
• Brief amicus curiae of International Association of Democratic Lawyers, et al.

Full post as published by SCOTUSBLOG on March 06, 2009 (boomark / email).