Northampton, MA
Civil rights Lawyer at Northampton, MA
Practice Areas: Civil Rights
OUTCOME: The Supreme Judicial Court decided in favor of the defendant.
At issue: the defendant's right to waive the minimum number of jurors at his trial. Mr. Newman co-authored the amicus brief for the ACLUM at the Supreme Judicial Court. Case is reported at 452 Mass 823 ... .
OUTCOME: Client was repatriated relatively early in the process.
Guantanamo detainee litigation, co-counseled with Stewart Eisenberg .
OUTCOME: An injunction was issued in favor of our clients, the citizen-producers.
At issue was the right of citizen-producers to not be censored by their cable television station. Case is reported at 188 F. Supp. 2d 82
OUTCOME: The students won.
At issue: freedom of speech of high school students. The case is reported at 423 Mass.283; 55 F.3d 20; and 861 F. Supp.157.
OUTCOME: The death sentence was vacated and client received a life sentence
Post conviction relief in a death penalty case. The litigation involved litigation in the state trial and appellate courts, two denials of cert at the Supreme Court and a successful habeas corpus actio ... n in federal court (with co-counsel Bryan Stevenson, Terry Jackson, and Buz Eisenberg).
OUTCOME: The First Amendment right was vindicated
We represented homeowners who were being denied the right to post political signs on their lawns.
OUTCOME: We won at the Supreme Judicial Court and then the childrne were returned to their mother at the trial after remand.
Wendy Sibbison and Bill Newman represented the gay mother in this, the first, lesbian or gay custody case to be heard by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court or the highest court of any state.
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