Achieving Relief for Thousands
The CST lawyers and Smith Fellows concentrate their efforts on cases with substantial issues affecting large numbers of people. They are frequently assisted by other lawyers throughout the firm. This institutionalized commitment to pro bono work has produced significant results. Holland & Knight has represented thousands of people with legal problems who otherwise would have been denied access to the legal system. Some of the clients in our major cases include:
- Delma Banks, who was on death row for 20 years before we obtained a reversal of his death sentence
- Wilbert Rideau, a prisoner who spent 44 years in jail until he was freed through a jury verdict
- Haitian victims of torture, arbitrary detention, extra-judicial killing, and crimes against humanity for whom we obtained a $4.3 million federal jury verdict
- Mohammed Al Rehaief, an American hero who, with his family, helped save POW Jessica Lynch in Iraq
- Malik Jarno, a mentally-retarded teenage orphan from Guinea, in his civil rights and asylum claims
- Dependent and delinquent children who need but are not receiving mental health services
- African-American survivors of Rosewood, a town destroyed in 1923 by white neighbors
- Thousands of African-American would-be renters denied housing in a decade-long scheme
- Low-income pregnant women who were unwitting subjects of medical experimentation
- Prisoners with HIV/AIDS in Alabama facing life-threatening conditions and treatment
- Death row inmates experiencing deplorable conditions of confinement in Mississippi
- Individuals with profound communication disabilities denied necessary medical equipment
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