- David J. Cynamon
David J. Cynamon is a partner at the law firm
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman and represents the four remaining Kuwaiti prisoners detained in the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay. [http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-06-29-gitmo-open_x.htm]Cynamon is a senior litigator with more than 30 years of experience in complex civil trial and appellate litigation, including class actions, corporate merger and acquisition litigation, commercial product liability cases, nuclear energy litigation, employment discrimination cases and insurance subrogation and defense actions.
He has tried or argued jury and non-jury cases in federal and state courts in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, Illinois, Colorado and Arkansas. Cynamon also has briefed and argued appeals in most of the federal appellate circuits. [http://www.pillsburylaw.com/bv/bvisapi.dll/portal/ep/profDetail.do?bio=50348]
David received his bachelor of arts from
Brown University and hisJuris Doctor fromHarvard Law School .Cynamon is a lead counsel in
Al Odah v. United States , a petition on behalf of aGuantanamo captive .cite news
url=http://listproc.ucdavis.edu/archives/law-lib/law-lib.log0701/att-0174/01-GITMO_AttyList.pdf
title=Lead Petitioners' Counsel in Guantanamo Habeas Cases
publisher=Center for Constitutional Rights
accessdate=2008-06-09
quote=]References
External links
* [http://www.kuwaitifreedom.org Kuwaiti Family Committee website]
* cite web
url=http://www.pillsburylaw.com/david.cynamon
title=David J. Cynamon bio
publisher=Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
accessdate=February 26
accessyear=2008
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