His arrest was illegal, and his treatment in custody amounted to murder and manslaughter, she said.
Further, the government accept that the treatment that the applicant's brother received in police custody amounted to a substantive violation of article 3 with 14 of the Convention".
And while some of his advisers worried about the political perils of legally challenging Arizona's tough immigration law, Ms. Jarrett argued that its central provision — requiring the police to check the immigration status of people taken into custody — amounted to racial profiling, a civil rights issue "right in the president's wheelhouse," recalled Pete Rouse, another senior Obama adviser.
Last year, for example, the city settled three federal lawsuits filed on behalf of inmates who had died or been injured while in city custody, for amounts ranging from $850,000 to $2 million.
Under the old law, a divorce could drag on for years, but the judge would grant the divorce and determine the custody arrangements, the amount of child support, the alimony and the division of property all at the same time.
You will be given two options: 1) Submit to a medical screening to ascertain the inside content of your intestines; 2) Submit to police custody for the amount of time it would take to convince your custodians that you have shat out the entire contents of your intestines.
Immigrant-rights advocates have been calling attention to a number of cases in which minors are held in custody for inordinate amounts of time.
Aspects of the way in which the nine Iraqi detainees... were treated by the British military, during the time they were in British custody during 2004, amounted to actual or possible mistreatment".
If the new legal arguments actually affect who goes free and who stays in custody, then they will amount to meaningful change.
"The figure was much, much higher than a normal amount for custody cases in Lebanon, which is around $40,000-$40,000-$50,000[£28,000-£35,000]of the lawyers said.
