Crawford v. Marion County Election Board

by Press | Aug 31, 2015

On November 13, 2007, a coalition of organizations including the Lawyers’ Committee submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in this litigation challenging Indiana’s photo identification requirement for voting on Election Day as violative of the...

Long Island Housing Services, Inc. v. Village of Mastic Beach et al

by Press | Jul 27, 2015

On February 9, 2015, the Lawyers’ Committee and pro bono counsel Cooley LLP, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Central Islip against the Village of Mastic Beach, New York and the head of Mastic Beach’s housing...

Studies on Impact of Credit Histories and Employment

by Devon Sullivan | Jul 21, 2015

Discrimination in Low-Wage Labor Markets by Devah Pager, Bruce Western, and Bart Bonikowski Scarlet Letter and Recidivism by Megan C. Kurlychek, Robert Brame, and Shawn bushway

Criminal Background Checks in the News

by Devon Sullivan | Jul 21, 2015

November 10, 2009, MEDILL Reports Chicago – “>Young, Black and Jobless: Recession deepens the woe,” by Layton Ehmke November 11, 2009, The Wall Street Journal – “More Job Seekers Scramble to Erase their Criminal Past,” by Douglas...

Johnson v. Locke

by Devon Sullivan | Jul 21, 2015

On April 13, 2010, the Employment Discrimination Project filed a class action challenge of the misuse of arrest histories by the U.S. Census Bureau during its massive hiring campaign for this year’s census effort. In Eugene Johnson, et al., v. Gary Locke,...