by Press | Apr 1, 2019 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Public Counsel, and Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP filed an amicus brief on behalf of their clients, the City of San Jose and the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, in Department of...
by Press | Mar 28, 2019 | Press Releases
Boston, MA – Today, President Trump extended the Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) program for Liberians for twelve months, through March 31, 2020. This decision comes hours ahead of an emergency hearing in federal court in a lawsuit filed by the national Lawyers’...
by Press | Mar 27, 2019 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Facebook announced a new policy banning content that promotes white nationalism and white separatism as impermissible hate speech, following nine months of advocacy from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Facebook’s new...
by Press | Mar 26, 2019 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Facebook announced a new policy banning content that promotes white nationalism and white separatism as impermissible hate speech, following nine months of advocacy from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Facebook’s new...
by Press | Mar 21, 2019 | Press Releases
BARTLESVILLE, OK – Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Latham & Watkins LLP, and Bryan & Terrill, PLLC filed a lawsuit challenging unlawful and unconstitutional jailing of indigent individuals for nonpayment of court-imposed fines and...
by Press | Mar 19, 2019 | Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – Today, in response to the closing of Argosy University, a nationwide chain of for-profit schools that closed after the U.S. Department of Education pulled its eligibility for federal aid programs the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law...
