The Nashville Chapter Presents "Storming the Court"
On March 28, 2007, the Nashville Chapter of the American Constitution Society (ACS) hosted author and attorney Brandt Goldstein, who discussed his book, “Storming the Court: How a Band of Yale Law Students Sued the President And Won.” The event was held at the offices of the law firm of Bass, Berry & Sims PLC.
"Storming the Court" (Scribner paperback 2006), chronicles the true story of fifteen idealistic law students who challenged the United States Government in a battle for freedom that went all the way to the Supreme Court. His book also tells the story of 300 Haitian refugees held as prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the students who fought two Presidents to win their release. A major motion picture based on Storming the Court is now under development at Warner Bros. Michael Seitzman is slated to write and direct the film.
Brandt Goldstein, a visiting professor at New York Law School in Manhattan, has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and Slate, and is an occasional contributor to The Wall Street Journal (online edition). A 1992 graduate of Yale Law School, he clerked for Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then worked for several years at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton before leaving to write Storming the Court. He has spoken at more than 50 colleges and universities.
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