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Georgetown Scholar Reaches Deal to Return to Work While Fighting Deportation

In a settlement, the government agreed to reinstate Badar Khan Suri’s legal status amid litigation over the Trump administration’s efforts to deport him.

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Badar Khan Suri was arrested in March and held for nearly three days in an immigration detention center.
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Thomas A. Durkin, Civil Liberties Lawyer for the Reviled, Dies at 78

He relished skewering the U.S. government as he represented unpopular defendants in public corruption and national security cases, like those at Guantánamo.

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Thomas A. Durkin in 2012. “He represented the damned of the earth,” a colleague said.
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