by Press | Aug 31, 2017 | Press Releases
MONTGOMERY, AL – Today, a federal district court judge denied the State of Alabama’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that the method of electing judges to Alabama’s appeals courts violates the Voting Rights Act of 1965. All 19 of Alabama’s appellate judges are...
by Press | Aug 29, 2017 | Press Releases
The Lawsuit Seeks to Push Momentum Towards a Meaningful Court-Supervised Consent Decree Washington, D.C. – Today, Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and Bonnie Allen, executive director of the...
by Press | Aug 29, 2017 | Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, issued the following statement Tuesday after a federal jury in Chicago convicted a city police officer of violating civil rights by using...
by Press | Aug 29, 2017 | Press Releases
Decision to Delay Collection of Pay Data is an Insult to Workers WASHINGTON, D.C. – Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, issued the following statement Tuesday after the Office of Management and Budget...
by Press | Aug 28, 2017 | Press Releases
Latest Action is Part of Organization’s Ongoing Effort to Combat Hate Across the Country WASHINGTON, D.C. – After more than 20 years of propagating hate across the planet, Stormfront.org was brought down this weekend after Web.com stopped providing domain...
by Press | Aug 24, 2017 | Press Releases
Settlement Provides Justice to Victims of Racially Discriminatory Code Enforcement WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law announced a major settlement in the case of Long Island Housing Services, Inc. v. Village of Mastic Beach (EDNY)....
