by Press | Dec 22, 2020 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – Members of the Voting Rights Working Group issue the following statement about its election protection litigation for the 2020 elections: “Latino, Black, Asian American, and Native American voters played a decisive role in last month’s...
by Press | Dec 21, 2020 | Press Releases
The rights of transgender student-athletes must be protected from sexual discrimination, harmful legal targeting and sexual assault, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the National Women’s Law Center, attorneys from Hogan Lovells and 60 other...
by Press | Dec 17, 2020 | Press Releases
(Austin, Texas) – To defend the limited, but meaningful inclusion of race in the University of Texas at Austin’s admissions process, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, along with pro bono counsel Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP and Bernabei...
by Press | Dec 15, 2020 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – The Washington, D.C. Council unanimously passed legislation today that will strengthen the District’s Human Rights Act by extending its public accommodations protections to online platforms. This will prohibit online service providers, such...
by Press | Dec 14, 2020 | Press Releases
(Graham, N.C.) – In a new court filing on Friday, groups leading the October 31 ‘I Am Change’ march to the Polls in Graham, N.C., which was disrupted by police violence, amended their complaint in federal court. The amended complaint in Justice for the Next...
by Press | Dec 11, 2020 | Press Releases
(WASHINGTON) – The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a lost cause lawsuit brought by Texas’s Attorney General Paxton which sought to invalidate millions of votes cast by voters in four states. The following is a statement from Kristen Clarke, president and...
