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INSIGHT: How Much Is Your Life Worth to a Court?
Our legal system often must determine the monetary value of a person’s life to assess damages owed. To make this determination, usually after serious injury or death, our system calls upon forensic economists, experts used to help calculate the incalculable.
Tennessee Law Will Chill Voter Registration Activities by Imposing Criminal and Civil Penalties
NASHVILLE, TN — The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the NAACP, pro bono firm Hogan Lovells US LLP, Memphis-based firm Burch, Porter, & Johnson PLLC, Bromberg Law LLC, and community practitioner Daniel Ayoade Yoon filed suit today challenging...
National Racial Justice Organizations Applaud House Judiciary Committee’s Historic Passage of H.R. 5, the Equality Act
Washington, D.C. – Today, in response to the House Judiciary Committee’s vote to advance H.R. 5, also known as the Equality Act, the Urban League and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, two of the nation’s preeminent racial justice organizations, issued...
National Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Presents House Testimony on Auto Lending Discrimination
Washington, D.C. – Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, will testify before the House Financial Services Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations at tomorrow’s committee hearing “Examining...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Condemns Tennessee Lawmakers’ Passage of Voter Suppression Measure Efforts
Washington, D.C. –“In no uncertain terms, we condemn the bill passed by Tennessee lawmakers' which has the effect of suppressing the efforts of those seeking to register people to vote. The bill would have a harmful effect on organizations that work to reach those...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Reflects on the Civil Rights Legacy of Judge Damon Keith
Washington, D.C. – Judge Damon Keith, the longest serving African-American federal judge in U.S. history, passed away at his home in Detroit, Michigan on April 28, 2019. A graduate of West Virginia State University, Judge Keith earned his law degree from Howard...
Kristen Clarke’s Statement On Dead in Synagogue Shooting in California City of Poway
We mourn with the American Jewish community today as another act of violent anti-Semitism targeted the Jewish community at Congregation Chabad in Poway, California. This horrific attack is made all the more devastating as it occurred on the last day of Passover and...
The Religious and Moral Exemption Rules: Increasing Systemic Barriers for Women of Color
Written by: Jon Deauna Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, over 15 million women of color have gained health insurance with coverage for preventive services, including no-cost contraceptives. Affordable access to contraception is critical and allows women of...
Settlement Reached to End Texas Voter Purge and Protect Voting Rights
Agreement between civil rights groups and state elections officials ends lawsuit over voter roll purge that discriminated against non-citizens A group of civil rights organizations reached an agreement today with Texas state officials to settle a lawsuit challenging...
National Civil Rights Organization Calls for Facebook to Immediately Remove Militia Group Postings Holding Migrants Hostage
Washington, D.C. – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law issued a demand letter to Facebook yesterday calling for the company to remove various videos and content posted by members of the United Constitutional Patriots (UCP), an extremist militia group...
Inside the Fight to Get Facebook, Twitter to Reject Racists and Neo-Nazis
An underground network of activists fighting neo-Nazi propaganda in Colorado was instrumental in getting the racist group Identity Evropabounced from major social-media platforms. But following a data leak by Unicorn Riot that firmly...
Human Rights Activists Say These Videos Show Violent Kidnappings—And Facebook Isn’t Taking Them Down
On Saturday, the FBI arrested the leader of a vigilante militia group that has been holding border crossers in southern New Mexico at gunpoint. But as of late Tuesday, videos of such apprehensions conducted by his group, United Constitutional Patriots, are still...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Responds to Supreme Court Argument Regarding 2020 Census
Washington, D.C. – Today the United States Supreme Court heard 90 minutes of argument in one of the current term’s most consequential cases, Department of Commerce v. New York, et al, a challenge to the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Sues White House Office of Management and Budget For Payday Lending Documents Records
Lawsuit Seeks to Expose Former CFPB Director’s Ties to Payday Lending Industry Washington, DC (April 22, 2019) – Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the White House Office...
Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, and Consumer Groups Urge Congress to Protect Marginalized Communities from Discriminatory Privacy Abuses
Today, 26 civil society organizations sent a letter to Congress calling on legislators to ensure that any federal privacy legislation address the discriminatory impacts of commercial data practices and protect people of color, women, religious minorities, members of...