Attorneys for Jose Padilla have filed a lawsuit against former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo. The lawsuit alleges that Yoo’s legal opinions formed the basis for Padilla being tortured during his detention. Padilla is the U.S. citizen who was held for three-and-a-half years without charge at a Navy brig. Padilla’s attorney Jonathan Freiman said, “John Yoo is the first person in American history to provide the legal authorization for the institution of torture in the U.S.” John Yoo is now a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley.