It was a fortuitous meeting of the minds between the civil-liberties lawyers and the new Governor.
Police officials and civil-liberties lawyers said they did not believe that hogtying was widespread.
Marshall Perlin (August 23, 1920 - December 31, 1998) was a civil-liberties lawyer, who along with Emanuel Hirsch Bloch, defended Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
Mrs. Aloni, a civil-liberties lawyer opposed to religious coercion, promises to respect Orthodox ways.
James Woods stars as a former civil-liberties lawyer who has cynically moved on to defending drug dealers.
FIRE was founded by Alan Charles Kors, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvey A. Silverglate, a civil-liberties lawyer in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Reversing itself, the Immigration and Naturalization Service will permit civil-liberties lawyers to advise hundreds of foreign nationals held since the Sept. 11 attacks.
Attorney General Janet Reno could have intervened to block his release but did not, a decision some civil-liberties lawyers took as a sign that the administration has grown uncomfortable with its tactic.
But civil-liberties lawyers take issue with the strategy.
Yesterday, he branded a newspaper editorial "dopey" and called a position taken by a civil-liberties lawyer "bizarre."