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Guantánamo Blog

Click on the link below to view a recent article in the NYSBA's State Bar News (May / June 2010) about this blog:

        • State Bar Launches New Blog—Comprehensive site offers latest legal news updates on Guantánamo detainees

2010 Haywood Burns Memorial Award

Mary Crisalli Sansone receives the 2010 Haywood Burns Memorial Award (Thursday, January 28, 2010).  See below for news coverage:

• Mary Sansone Wins New York State Bar Association's 2010 Haywood Burns Award for Civil Rights Advocacy
• Mary Crisalli Sansone, 93-Year Old Brooklyn Native Receives Civil Rights Award

2010 Annual Meeting Program

On Thursday, January 28, 2010, the Committee on Civil Rights cosponsored a panel with the Special Committee on LGBT People and the Law at the NYSBA's 2010 Annual Event titled Core Rights Implicated by Second-Tier Status of Same-Sex Couples—The Real Effects of a Two-Tier System.  See below for news coverage:

• Marriage—or Not—Impacts Same-Sex Couples in their Every Day Lives