RIP: Michael Ratner, one of the country’s most well-known civil liberties attorneys, has died. Read his obituary in the New York Times, the Guardian and the Nation. In 2006, the NLJ named him among the 100 most influential lawyers in America. He challenged the New York City police’s stop-and-frisk policy, and he represented Guantanamo detainees and Julian Assange of Wikileaks.

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