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1. 1. NYCLU Staff | NYCLU

   www.nyclu.org/node/1022 - [Cached]

   Published on: 7/15/2008   Last Visited: 7/15/2008

   Christopher DunnAssociate Legal DirectorChristopher Dunn has worked as an ACLU lawyer since 1987 and has been at the New York Civil Liberties Union since 1996.He also is an adjunct professor at the NYU School of Law, where he teaches in the Civil Rights Clinic.In addition, he authors the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties column in the New York Law Journal.
   
   At the NYCLU Dunn has litigated a long series of cases involving the First Amendment rights of protesters and public employees, including challenges to NYPD tactics at the Republican National Convention.He also has led challenges to New York State's death penalty statute, to racially discriminatory education practices, to the NYPD's subway search program, to NYPD racial profiling, to selective enforcement of the law against the homeless, and to various post-9/11 law-enforcement measures.In addition to litigation, Dunn regularly represents groups and individuals in their dealings with the NYPD and other city agencies around protests and demonstrations.
   
   Dunn has written and spoken extensively in a wide variety of forums and has appeared on CNN, Fox National News and Court TV.His op-ed pieces have appeared frequently in the Daily News, Newsday and The New York Times.
   
   Prior to joining the NYCLU in 1996, Dunn served as senior staff attorney with the national office of the American Civil Liberties Union.During his tenure at the ACLU he was responsible for all phases of litigation in class-action, foster-care reform cases and for federal legislative matters related to child welfare.Dunn graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia with a B.A. degree in 1979 and from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1985.

2. 2. www.commondreams.org

   www.commondreams.org/news2008/ - [Cached]

   Published on: 7/10/2008   Last Visited: 7/11/2008

   "A democratic system depends on the rule of law, and not even the president or Congress can authorize a law that violates core constitutional principles," said Christopher Dunn, Associate Legal Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union."The only thing compromised in this so-called ‘compromise' law is the Constitution."
   
   Attorneys on the lawsuit Amnesty v. McConnell are Jaffer, Melissa Goodman and L. Danielle Tully of the ACLU National Security Project and Dunn and Arthur Eisenberg of the NYCLU.

3. 3. Testimony: Funding the Civilian Complaints Review Board | NYCLU

   www.nyclu.org/node/710 - [Cached]

   Published on: 3/21/2006   Last Visited: 7/15/2008

   We are Donna Lieberman and Christopher Dunn, the Executive Director and Associate Legal Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, respectively.