by Ian Weiner | Feb 10, 2021 | Blog, Press Releases
The California State Bar must eliminate the use of Facial Recognition Technology in the administration of their February 2021 bar examination, because it is disproportionately inaccurate in identifying women and people of color, a letter sent today to the several...
by Ian Weiner | Jan 26, 2021 | Blog, Press Releases
To ensure affordable housing units can be built and expand opportunities to promote a thriving, inclusive community in the Gowanus neighborhood of New York City, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed an amicus brief today on behalf of three...
by Press | Dec 13, 2020 | Blog
(Washington, D.C.) — The Proud Boys and other white supremacists targeted Asbury United Methodist Church and Metropolitan A.M.E. Church, two historically Black churches with acts of violence on Saturday night in the midst of pro-Trump rallies. The following is a...
by Ian Weiner | Oct 23, 2020 | Blog
(San Francisco) – A three-judge federal panel in California has ruled that the Census bureau’s plan to give the White House a count of the nation’s unauthorized immigrants is unconstitutional, and cannot be used when reapportioning seats for the U.S. House of...
by Ian Weiner | Sep 16, 2020 | Blog
Today, before the First Circuit Court of Appeals, civil rights lawyers, led by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, will argue that Harvard University’s race-conscious admissions policy must be upheld. If not, the groups may be headed to...
by Don Owens | Aug 28, 2020 | Blog
“White supremacy and police violence inflict horror on the psyche of our nation that Black people often can’t escape. Whether walking away from the police in Wisconsin, sleeping in our homes in Louisville, or entertaining our...