They are now arguing that much of this money is "coerced" from members, and is thus an infringement of free speech.
Mr. Rodriguez's lawyer, Steven J. Chaikin, maintained during the trial that the later statements had been coerced from Mr. Rodriguez by an aggressive detective.
According to human rights groups, people taken into custody by such intelligence units were often drugged and then thrown into the sea from airplanes after the last bit of useful information had been coerced from them through torture.
They contend that depriving Mendez of access to Camp 7 also deprives Baluchi of evidence relevant to his defense, including his claims of torture, as he is seeking to prevent statements he made in detention that he says were coerced from being used against him during his military commission.
Many are coerced, from an early age, into this potentially dangerous and demeaning work.
For starters, Khadr's supposed confession seems clearly to have been coerced from him.
Testimony is coerced from Palestinian children, pressuring them to give up information about protest leaders and participants.
German authorities say Cornelius Gurlitt, now 80, kept hundreds of works — mostly graphics — that were confiscated under the Nazis or whose sale was coerced from desperate owners trying to raise cash or obtain exit documents out of the country.
A colony of microbes like these, properly isolated from the host's immune system, might be coerced into trading electrons for nutrients from the bloodstream.
Under Guardians of London's scheme, a swathe of social housing tenants could be coerced into accepting being downgraded from real tenants with rights, into guardians without any.
