Press Releases
- February 23, 2010 Appeal Filed in Mississippi Civil Rights Suit Against HUD On behalf of the Mississippi State Conference NAACP, the Gulf Coast Fair Housing Center and four individual plaintiffs, lawyers from Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo, PC, the Mississippi Center for Justice and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, today filed an appeal in a case involving $570 million of emergency relief funds that were intended to assist low- and moderate-income victims of Hurricane Katrina, but instead were diverted to an expansion of the Port of Gulfport, Miss. Plaintiffs contend that the diversion violates fair housing laws and the intent by Congress for how these funds would be used.
- February 17, 2010 PreventLoanScams.org a New Online Tool in the Fight Against Loan Modification Scammers
- February 03, 2010 SEVERE HOMELAND SECURITY MISCONDUCT EXPOSED - New Evidence Shows ICE Colluded with Company in Trafficking Guest workers Lawyers' Committee Executive Director Barbara Arnwine; NAACP, Washington Bureau Director Hilary Shelton; New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice Excutive Director Saket Soni and others spoke at press conference at the National Press Club of Feb. 3, 2010.
- January 08, 2010 WHUR 96.3 FM HOSTS 3RD ANNUAL DR. KING TOWN HALL MEETING Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Executive Director Barbara Arnwine-Panelist
- December 16, 2009 Lawyers' Committee Submits Statement to Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law Regarding the United States' Implementation of Human Rights Treaties
- December 11, 2009 Lawyers' Committee Recognized Outstanding Lawyers, Law Firms and Clients During Annual Awards Reception
- December 04, 2009 Lawyers' Committee Convenes National Leaders for Strategy Discussion on Barriers to Employment of Minorities, Including Persons with Arrest and Conviction Records
- November 30, 2009 Federal Court Lawsuit Settlement Brings Ohio Into Compliance with National Voter Registration Act-Hundreds of Thousands of Low-Income Ohioans to Benefit
- November 23, 2009 Joint Statement from Reilly Morse, Mississippi Center for Justice Senior Attorney, and Joe Rich, Director Fair Housing, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, on HUD’s Rejection of Texas’s Disaster Plan
- November 19, 2009 Lawyers' Committee to Recognize Outstanding Lawyers, Law Firms and Clients During Annual Awards Reception
