Gaillard T. Hunt

Gaillard T. Hunt is an American lawyer, living in Maryland.cite news
url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15816696/
title=Heart surgery must be at Guantanamo: Court denies Pakistani detainee's request to have procedure done off base
date=November 20 2006
accessdate=2007-01-12
publisher=MSNBC
author=Joel Seidman] cite news
url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/22/news/CB_GEN_Guantanamo_Heart_Procedure.php
title=Guantanamo prisoner alleges botched medical procedures
publisher=International Herald Tribune
date=November 21 2006
accessdate=2007-09-13] cite web
url=http://www.gthunt.com/huntbio.htm
title=Who Is G.T. Hunt?]

Hunt received his law degree from Columbia Law School in 1965.

Vietnam era conscientious objectors

From 1969 to 1972 Hunt worked on behalf of close to one hundred clients who were conscientious objectors.cite web
url=http://www.gthunt.com/sssum.htm
title=Selective Service and Military Litigation -- 1969-1972
author=Gaillard T. Hunt
accessdate=2007-09-14] Papers from this practice are held by the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.

Guantanamo clients

Hunt is notable because he volunteered to serve as a pro bono attorney for a captive held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.Hunt is the lawyer for Pakistani Guantanamo captive Saifullah Paracha.cite web
publisher=The Talking Dog
url=http://thetalkingdog.com/archives2/000868.html
title=Interview with Gaillard T. Hunt
date=June 28 2007
accessdate=2007-09-14] Hunt contacted the human rights group Human Rights First, who, in addition to the Center for Constitutional Rights was coordinating the efforts of the lawyers volunteering to help the Gauntanamo captives.

Hunt explain why he chose to work on behalf of Guantanamo captives:quotation
I undertook this representation because I thought it would be interesting... I didn't think it would be all consuming for two years, or go on this long. But in some sense, we attorneys are protecting the value of our licenses-- to protect the courts' right to decide who gets locked up. Being a lawyer is less valuable if the government can just go around and lock people up without recourse to courts and lawyers.

In addition to filing one of the first writs of habeas corpus on behalf of a Guantanamo captive, on Paracha's behalf, Hunt has filed other petitions, includingcite news
url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,229659,00.html
title=Lawyers Protest Medical Procedure on Gitmo Detainee's Heart
publisher=Fox News
date= November 15, 2006
accessdate=2007-09-14] :
*Hunt filed an emergency injunction to prevent Guantanamo camp authorities performing heart surgery on Paracha, against his will.
*Hunt filed a petition when camp authorities would not allow Paracha to receive books, including a bible.cite web
url=http://www.sojo.net/images/sojomail/051109_bible.pdf
title=Saifullah Paracha v. George W. Bush
date=November 1, 2005
publisher=Department of Justice
accessdate=2007-09-14
format=PDF] :

Work on Social Security Numbers for resident aliens

Hunt has worked on behalf of legal resident aliens, who wished to get Social Security Numbers issued.cite web
url=http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/oira/0960/comments/436.html
title=Public Comment Regarding: Re: "Social Security proposal, "Evidence Requirements for Assignment of Social Security numbers and Assignment of Social Security numbers for non-work purposes."
publisher=Office of Management and Budget
date=February 25, 2003
accessdate=2007-09-14] :In some states in the USA a SSN is required in order to get a driver's license.cite web
url=http://www.nilc.org/immspbs/DLs/DL001.htm
title="Nonwork" SSN no longer available for driver's license applicants: Immigrants' Rights Update, Vol. 16, No. 2,
date=April 12, 2002
accessdate=2007-09-14] :

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