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Martin Garbus
Martin Garbus is one of the country's leading trial lawyers. He aggressively represents
his commercial and criminal clients in both the courts and the public media. He has
appeared before the United States Supreme Court as well as trial and appellate courts in
the nation, in over 100 cases..
Mr. Garbus's skill as a trial lawyer has earned his distinguished reputation as a result of
his courtroom skills. He is an expert at every aspect of litigation and trial, from jury
selection to cross-examination to summation. His cases have established new legal
precedents in the Supreme Court and courts throughout the country.
Mr. Garbus, who taught trial practice at the Yale Law School and Constitutional law at
Columbia, as well as in Beijing, China and Prague, Czech Republic is the author of six
books and numerous articles, that have appeared both in the New York Times, the
Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and in legal publications.
During his legal career, Mr. Garbus has represented and advocated on behalf of political
dissidents such as Nelson Mandela, Vaclav Havel, and Daniel Ellsberg. On behalf of
Andrei Sakharov and other Russian dissidents, he smuggled a list of political prisoners
describing their awful jail conditions, out of the Soviet Union, personally delivering it in
January 1980, two weeks before the inauguration, to President Jimmy Carter, who
acknowledged this document as the beginning and cornerstone of his new American
human rights policy.
He played a role in writing the Czechoslovakian constitution, the Russian media laws,
and laws in other foreign countries. He represented the Rwandan government, after the
genocide, in its negotiations with the International Court over questions concerning the
trials of the accused. He advised the Chinese government in their attempts to enforce
copyright and lectured Chinese officials and students in copyright enforcement. Mr.
Garbus has also been an international observer in trials and elections in South Africa,
Czechoslovakia, Russia, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
INTERVIEWEES ALSO INCLUDE:
Floyd Abrams
First Amendment Attorney
Defended the New York Times in historic Pentagon Papers case
Author of Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment
Debbie Almontaser
Founding principal, Khalil Gibran Academy
Alleges she was forced to resign from post before the school's opening because she
tried to explain the literal meaning of the word "intifada" when interviewed for a New York
Post article.
Ruth Benn
War Resister's League
Arrested while leading protest at 2004 Republican National Convention; suing New York
City.
Leslie Cagan
Co-Founder, United for Peace and Justice. Organizer of the largest protests against the
Iraq war and the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York.
Ward Churchill
Former professor, University of Colorado at Boulder
Fired from his tenured post after his controversial essay on 9/11- in which he called the
WTC workers "Little Eichmanns"-prompted an investigation into "academic
improprieties."
Rabbi Michael Feinberg
Rabbi who did interfaith work with Debbie Almontaser
Eric Foner
DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University; Award-winning author of
dozens of books, including, Give Me Liberty! An American History; and, according to
conservative author David Horowitz, one of the "101 most dangerous professors in
America."
Chase Harper
Poway High School Graduate
Suspended from Poway High School for wearing "offensive t-shirt" with anti-gay
message; suing the school.
Ed Hedemann
War Resister's League
Arrested while leading protest at 2004 Republican National Convention; suing New York
City.
David Horowitz
Author of The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America
Founder, David Horowitz Freedom Center
Donna Lieberman
Executive Director, New York Civil Liberties Union
Eugene O'Donnell
Retired N.Y.P.D.
Lecturer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Daniel Pipes
Founder, Middle East Forum
Vocal opponent of Khalil Gibran Academy
Hon. Richard Posner
Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit.
Author, Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency
Joey Ramelli
Poway High School Graduate
Won discrimination lawsuit against Poway High School for anti-gay harassment he
endured while a student there.
Ellen Schrecker
Professor, Yeshiva University
McCarthyism expert
Joan Wallach Scott
Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
Chair, Committee of Academic Freedom and Tenure, American Association of University
Professors
Jack M. Sleeth, Jr.
First Amendment Attorney
Attorney for Poway Unified School District
Kenneth Starr
First Amendment Attorney
Former Special Prosecutor
Dean of the Pepperdine University School of Law
Kevin Theriot
Attorney, Alliance Defense Fund
Represented Chase Harper in his lawsuit against the Poway school district.
Josh Wolf
Blogger/Journalist
Served 6 months in jail for contempt of court when he refused to turn over videotapes he
had made of a San Francisco protest.
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