by Nick Diaz | Dec 20, 2019 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON – African Communities Together and UndocuBlack Network, along with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Lawyers for Civil Rights, applaud the provision in the National Defense Authorization Act that allows eligible Liberians to gain...
by Nick Diaz | Sep 7, 2019 | Newsclips
A federal judge is allowing a New York-led coalition of 15 states and other groups to defend the Census Bureau in a lawsuit brought by Alabama, the New York state attorney general’s office said Friday. Alabama is challenging more than 200 years of...
by Nick Diaz | Aug 13, 2019 | Press Releases
Washington, D.C. — The City of Atlanta, Georgia and Arlington County, Virginia yesterday filed a motion to intervene in pending litigation brought by the State of Alabama challenging the U.S. Census Bureau’s long-standing practice of counting all people, regardless of...
by Nick Diaz | Aug 13, 2019 | Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – The Trump Administration recently filed a motion to dismiss in the lawsuit African Communities Together v Trump, challenging the administration’s proposed termination of Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for Liberians. A coalition of attorneys...
by Nick Diaz | Jun 27, 2019 | Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – In response to the Supreme Court of the United States Decision in Department of Commerce v. New York, which was issued today, Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, issued the...
