by Press | Dec 9, 2019 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C – Today, the national Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’ Committee) and pro bono counsel, Hunton Andrews Kurth, LLP, and Bernabei & Kabat, PLLC, filed a petition in State District Court of Travis County, Texas to intervene in a...
by Press | Dec 9, 2019 | Press Releases
In May 2017, 2nd Lt. Richard Collins III was murdered in an alleged hate crime at a bus stop outside of the University of Maryland’s campus by an individual with ties to an extremist group, Alt-Reich. The defendant’s evidence of racial animus will be a critical...
by Press | Dec 6, 2019 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC- Following passage of H.R. 4, the Voting Rights Advancement Act, by the U.S. House of Representatives today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law issues the following statement: “We applaud passage of the Voting Rights Advancement Act...
by Press | Dec 5, 2019 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC- In response to reports that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is seeking to remove provisions from the “new NAFTA” that would make it harder to hold Internet companies accountable for unlawful acts, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law...
by Press | Dec 4, 2019 | Press Releases
Lawyers’ Committee Argues that Ruling Especially Hinders Access for Black Low-Income Women in Louisiana Washington, D.C. – On December 2, 2019, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and a dozen other...
by Press | Dec 3, 2019 | Press Releases
Monument was Removed from Courthouse Circle in Chatham County CHATHAM, NORTH CAROLINA – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is celebrating a North Carolina court’s decision to dismiss the United Daughters of the Confederacy’s (UDC) lawsuit to stop...
