<p class="quote"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">&#8220;When the history of this distinguished court is written, today&#8217;s majority decision will be viewed with dismay,&#8221; writes Guido Calabresi, the former Yale Law dean and a man widely viewed as the most illustrious living member of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. He is lodging his dissent in a 7-4 decision of the en banc court concluding that a Canadian software engineer named Maher Arar has no right to sue government officials. What has Calabresi so worked up?</span></p> Scott Horton | Harpers scott horton, harpers, second court of appeals, arar, syria torture the-feed 0 2009-11-03T12:54:40-05:00 <p>The case of Arar and the shameful conduct of the 2nd Court.</p> 5 6339 ah-the-patriot-act 2009-11-03T12:54:52-05:00 true false false false false Ah, the Patriot Act 2009-11-03T12:54:52-05:00 http://harpers.org/archive/2009/11/hbc-90006024 84 0