A first-year Yale Law School student’s proposal to sue the nation’s attorney general over standards for the treatment of poor and disabled Americans quickly moved from classroom to courtroom last month, earning praise from observers on two coasts.

Alisa Tiwari, a participant in Yale’s San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project, said she first became interested in learning  how to get more involved after reading last December that the U.S. Department of Justice, under Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ direction, had repealed guidance related to the human rights of poor, young and disabled Americans, as well as people of color.

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