Dolly, Get Your Bag! (Filartiga v. Peña-Irala)

What do you do if after fleeing from an oppressive regime in your home country of Paraguay and coming to the United States for a better life, you discover that the former head of the police force—a man who tortured and murdered your brother for political dissidence—had also fled to the U.S.A.? You dust off a two hundred year old law about piracy and GET. YOUR. BAG. To read about why the term "alien" is marginalizing and explore a new alternative coined by our brilliant friend Dr. Arturo Castellanos, click here.

Om Podcasten

This podcast has everything: sassy judges, cults, identity fraud, too much Fireball, the oxford comma, and the Five-Year-Old Smackdown, which is that thing where a little kid pulls the chair out from under his aunt during a family reunion. Subscribe to hear what happens when a law student and a podcaster mix liquor with the law. There are probably a few laws when drinking Claws, but we couldn’t tell you what they are.