Kaua‘i will host a distinguished American Civil Liberties Union attorney from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., March 21, at the Kaua‘i Community College cafeteria, a news release states. RSVP for the free event by e-mailing office@acluhawaii.org. The Davis Levin First
Kaua‘i will host a distinguished American Civil Liberties Union attorney from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., March 21, at the Kaua‘i Community College cafeteria, a news release states.
RSVP for the free event by e-mailing office@acluhawaii.org.
The Davis Levin First Amendment Conference Distinguished Lecture Series presents Ben Wizner, attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union National Security Project.
Wizner has litigated several important post-9/11 civil liberties cases for the ACLU in which the government has invoked the state secrets privilege, including El-Masri v. United States (a challenge to the CIA’s abduction, detention, and torture of an innocent German citizen) and Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. (a suit against a private aviation services company for facilitating the CIA’s kidnap to torture of five Muslim men), the release states.
Oral arguments in Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. were held last month in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals with Wizner representing the five plaintiffs.
He has traveled to Guantanamo Bay to observe and report on Military Commission trials. Wizner was a law clerk to the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
He is a graduate of Harvard College and New York University School of Law.
