July 25, 2006

FEDERAL COURTS: Arab group sues U.S. over slow evacuations

Robert Sedler, Wayne State University law professor, predicted a lawsuit filed against the Bush administration in Detroit federal court will die quickly. The national American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, a nonprofit Arab-American civil-rights group, alleges in their suit filed Monday that the continued delays in evacuating Americans from Lebanon violates their due process rights. The suit also asks Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to seek a cease-fire between Israel and Hizballah until the evacuation is finished, and asks Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to stop supplying Israel with weapons until the U.S. completes its evacuation. Sedler said the suit is unlikely to occupy the time of Rice or Rumsfeld unless it survives the government\'s inevitable request to have it dismissed.

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