“Whatever it costs”
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“It is clear that mandatory minimum sentences fail to achieve any of the purposes for which they were enacted and, instead, result in an unjust system with disproportionate and racially biased outcomes…. Eliminating mandatory minimum sentences from our justice system is an important step forward in making our system more rational, balanced, and equal.”
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Salma Rizvi ’16 (top) and Sarahi Uribe ’16 won 2014 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans that provide tuition and stipends for graduate education. Rizvi speaks Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi, and Arabic—her parents are Pakistani and Guyanese—and worked as a linguist and intelligence analyst for the US Department of State and the National Security Agency, where she worked on translation and reports that were included in the president’s daily briefings. Uribe, the child of Mexican immigrants, has dedicated her career to the immigrant rights movement. She has worked at the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, helping to educate the public about deportation policies. Uribe plans to continue her work in this area after law school. “I want to be a progressive Latina voice in local politics,” she says.
Professor of Clinical Law Bryan Stevenson testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Over-Criminalization Task Force at a hearing on penalties.
NYU Law alums played major roles in the closely watched trial of Egyptian Islamic preacher Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, who was convicted of terrorismrelated charges in May. Jeremy Schneider ’77 (far left) represented Mustafa as defense attorney; Assistant US Attorney Ian McGinley ’06 was the prosecutor; and Judge Katherine Forrest ’90 of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York presided.
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Catherine Amirfar ’00 John Attanasio ’79 Vicki Been ’83 Julie Brill ’85 Herbert Hammond ’76 Jonathan Lippman ’68 Bridget McCormack ’91 Erin Murphy Richard Pildes Stephen Schulhofer Catherine Sharkey
C ar Ke ys Im age: © Moodboard/Corbis; Court Art: Jane Rosenberg
On June 30, Kenneth Feinberg ’70, the alternative dispute resolution and compensation expert hired by General Motors, announced that the company would establish an “openended” fund and pay “whatever it costs” to victims of car failures due to its faulty ignitions. Feinberg set minimum payments of $1 million for families who lost loved ones. In the first six months of the year, the beleaguered company has already recalled more than 29 million cars. Earlier, in May, US Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx ’96 imposed on the car maker the largest fine legally allowed—$35 million—for failure to address safety concerns, saying, “What GM did was break the law.”
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