by Stanley Augustin | Dec 18, 2015 | Press Releases
In response to a Title VI Civil Rights Complaint, the Federal Highway Administration has reached a landmark agreement with the Texas state highway agency that will be worth tens of millions of dollars in mitigation and relocation funding for the residents of a Corpus...
by Stanley Augustin | Dec 18, 2015 | Newsclips
Adapting civil-rights law for the environmental context has proven tricky, said Joseph Rich of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Most cases dealing with disparate impacts involve housing or employment issues, he said, leaving the EPA to do...
by Stanley Augustin | Dec 16, 2015 | Newsclips
The shared values of diversity, inclusion, and access to opportunity are central to who we are as a nation, but, all too often, our ability to fulfill that vision of America is undermined by our failure to take thoughtful, strategic action to promote fair housing...
by Stanley Augustin | Dec 15, 2015 | Press Releases
The state of North Carolina is being sued over state’s violations of Sections V and VII of the National Voter Registration Act GREENSBORO, N.C.–Widespread disenfranchisement and a steep decline in voter registration activity have led a coalition of civic organizations...
by Stanley Augustin | Dec 15, 2015 | Newsclips
Fifteen years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the outcome of the 2000 Presidential election. The Court’s controversial Bush v. Gore ruling halted the Florida vote recount, in effect deciding who would occupy the nation’s highest office and placing a cloud over the...