by Nick Diaz | Apr 26, 2024 | Press Releases
LOUISIANA––The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Southeast Louisiana Legal Services, and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, have successfully won summary judgment in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of current...
by Press | Apr 18, 2024 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON—On Thursday, former President Donald Trump was unsuccessful in his attempt to halt a series of lawsuits that accuse him of instigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection. In 2021 the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law sued the former president, his...
by Press | Apr 17, 2024 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON—In testimony today before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce Innovation, Data and Commerce Subcommittee, David Brody, managing attorney of the Digital Justice Initiative at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, underscored...
by Press | Apr 16, 2024 | Press Releases
RICHMOND, VA—Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Ropes & Gray LLP filed a lawsuit on behalf of the their clients the Virginia State Conference of the NAACP (“Virginia NAACP”) with the Circuit Court for the City of...
by Press | Apr 15, 2024 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and civil rights attorneys Mike Laux and Austin Porter Jr. filed an amended complaint and accompanying motion for preliminary injunction against Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the state of...
by Press | Apr 9, 2024 | Press Releases
Today, the Virginia State Conference of the NAACP (“Virginia NAACP”) served Governor Glenn Youngkin’s Office with a notice of intent to sue for violation of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (“VFOIA”), Va. Code §§ 2.2-3700 et seq. The notice was accompanied by...