The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law yesterday filed a friend of the court brief arguing that the Detainee Treatment Act does not cut off meaningful access to the courts for detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law expressed deep concern over a provision of the Defense Appropriations bill that Congress has passed. This provision would effectively permit the use of evidence obtained by torture in the cases of Guantanamo Naval Base detainees. At issue is an amendment, introduced by Senators Lindsey Graham, Carl Levin and Jon Kyl that would severely curtail federal court review of detainees cases, allow military tribunals to rely on evidence gained from torture, and undermine vital ongoing attorney-client relations for Guantanamo detainees.

For Immediate Release

Monday, December 5, 2005

New Report: Misinterpretation of Fair Use Stifles Free Expression

Artists, Writers and Bloggers Targeted for Using Copyrighted Material

New York, NY Today, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law released a new report, Will Fair Use Survive? which documents the increasing number of artists, writers, bloggers and others who are unjustly targeted for using copyrighted or trademarked material without permission.

Professor Stephen J. Schulhofer of NYU School of Law and co-author of the new report released by the Brennan Center for Justice, The Secrecy Problem in Terrorism Trials, provided testimony in todays Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on detainees.