H. Candace Gorman

H. Candace Gorman is an Chicago, Illinois-based attorney best known for representing two Guantanamo detainees. Her father, Robert J. Gorman, was also an attorney with a practice in Chicago.

Gorman has been part of an effort organized by the Center for Constitutional Rights to provide pro bono lawyers for the detainees the United States took in the "war on terror", and has held in its Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.cite news
url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-candace-gorman-/reporter-envy-or-why-a-g_b_36135.html
title=Reporter Envy (Or Why a Guantánamo Attorney Dreams of Being a Reporter)
publisher=Huffington Post
author=H. Candace Gorman
date=December 12 2006
accessdate=2008-08-13
quote= ] Two of her clients are Abdel Hamid Ibn Abdussalem Ibn Mifta Al Ghazzawi and
Amer Mohammon.cite web
url=http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/district-of-columbia/dcdce/1:2008mc00442/131990/245/0.pdf
title=PETITIONER ABDAL RAZAK ALI’S ATTORNEY AUTHORIZATION
publisher=United States Department of Justice
author=H. Candace Gorman
date=2008-08-07
accessdate=2008-08-13
quote= ]

Gorman and fellow habeas corpus attorney Anant Raut were two of the first people to dispute the Bush administration's charge that approximately 30 former Guantanamo detainees had returned to the battlefield, a claim later substantiated by researchers at Seton Hall Law School. [cite news
url=http://law.shu.edu/center_policyresearch/reports/urban_legend_final_61608.pdf
title=Justice Scalia, the Department of Defense, and the Perpetuation of an Urban

publisher=Seton Hall University School of Law
author=Mark Denbeaux et al.
date=June 2008
accessdate=2008-08-13
quote= ]

Ms. Gorman has brought suit, together with other attorneys representing Guantanamo detainees, against the National Security Agency in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York alleging that certain documents pertaining to alleged electronic surveillance were not produced following a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.cite news
url=http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202422742457
title=Firms' Request for NSA Records of Guantanamo Client Communications Dismissed
publisher=New York Law Journal
author=Mark Hamblett
date=2008-07-03
accessdate=2008-09-07
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.law.com%2Fjsp%2Farticle.jsp%3Fid%3D1202422742457&date=2008-09-07 mirror] ] In June, 2008, the Court granted The National Security Agency's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment as to FOIA Request No. 1, holding that the NSA was not required to comply with the Plaintiffs', one of whom is Ms. Gorman, request under FOIA.

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* [http://beta.blogger.com/profile/15947267626405585323 Gorman's blogs]
* cite news
url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/terror/20070515-1543-guantanamo-formerprisoners.html
title=U.S. says 6 ex-Guantanamo prisoners 'rejoined fight' in Afghanistan
publisher=San Diego Union Tribune
author=Michael Melia
date=2007-05-15
accessdate=2008-07-30
quote=H. Candace Gorman, a Chicago-based attorney for two Guantanamo detainees, noted that three of the names on the Pentagon list do not appear on official rosters of detainees. She said she believes they were never actually held at the prison in southeast Cuba. [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.signonsandiego.com%2Fnews%2Fnation%2Fterror%2F20070515-1543-guantanamo-formerprisoners.html&date=2008-07-30 mirror]