Amicus Curiae in Support of the
Petition to the U.S. Supreme Court for a Writ of Certiorari
in
Ruben Campa, Rene Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernandez and Luis Medina v. United States of America
, Case No. 08-987
INTERNATIONAL
Senate of United Mexican States; National Assembly of Panama; Mary Robinson (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 1997-2002; President of Ireland, 1992-1997); Legislators from the European Parliament and Countries of Brazil, Belgium, Chile, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Scotland and the United Kingdom
Nobel Laureates: Jose Ramos-Horta, Wole Soyinka, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Nadine Gordimer, Rigoberta Menchú, José Saramago, Zhores Alferov, Dario Fo, Günter Grass, Máiread Corrigan Maguire
Ibero-American Federation of Ombudsmen; Order of Attorneys of Brazil; Belgian Bar Association; Berlin Bar Association; Committee for Human Rights of the Portuguese Bar Association; International Federation of Human Rights; Judge Juan Guzman Tapia of Chile; Human Rights and Legal Organizations, Law Professors and Lawyers from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Portugal, Spain and United Kingdom
International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) and American Association of Jurists (Asociación Americana de Juristas) (AAJ)
UNITED STATES
Center for International Policy and the Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Civil Rights Clinic at Howard University School of Law
Cuban-American Scholars: Professors Nelson P. Valdés, Guillermo Grenier, Félix Masud-Piloto, José A. Cobas, Lourdes Arguelles, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Louis Pérez
Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Miami Chapter
National Jury Project
National Lawyers Guild and National Conference of Black Lawyers
William C. Velasquez Institute and Mexican American Political Association
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers