By Cheryl Miller | March 19, 2021
Over the last year Cantil-Sakauye and the California Supreme Court have spoken out publicly about racism and the role the law and courts play in addressing it.
By Alaina Lancaster | March 15, 2021
In a dissent to the court's majority opinion in a gender discrimination case, Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke said the court ought to have compared actual job duties of a female professor and her male colleagues, rather than taking a broader view of the positions. The court's majority said VanDyke's reading of the Equal Pay Law would gut it.
By Mike Scarcella | March 3, 2021
The protests in Portland became a national flashpoint over the role federal law enforcement was playing. A news report this week said federal prosecutors had moved to dismiss dozens of cases stemming from the demonstrations.
By Marcia Coyle | March 2, 2021
The justices reviewed a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that struck down two state voting rules under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act: the state's out-of-precinct policy in which the state discards all ballots cast by voters in the wrong precinct, and its criminal law barring the collection of early ballots by most third parties.
By Katheryn Tucker | February 25, 2021
"It's not about going to top law schools and only recruiting attorneys of color, but using your resources as global law firms, and partnering with practitioners like Lee, and providing your pro bono services, and frankly, your army of lawyers to actually work hard to effectuate change," said Reed Smith partner Rizwan Qureshi on why his firm joined forces with civil rights attorney S. Lee Merritt.
By Jacqueline Thomsen | February 17, 2021
The Ku Klux Klan Act is featured in recent lawsuits against Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, as well as a case against the organizers of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2018.
By Jacqueline Thomsen | February 16, 2021
Attorneys with Cohen Milstein and the NAACP allege the Jan. 6 riots were "the intended and foreseeable culmination of a carefully coordinated campaign to interfere with the legal process required to confirm the tally of votes cast in the Electoral College."
By Karen Sloan | February 11, 2021
The Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights Under Law argues that California's use of facial recognition software to verify the identities of online bar exam takers and monitor them for cheating is discriminatory against women and non-white examinees.
By Jason Grant | February 9, 2021
"The counterclaim in this case is a strategy to silence racial justice advocates that you might expect from segregationists in the South in the 1950s," one law professor said of a recent action lodged by the city of Detroit against Black Lives Matter protestors alleging civil conspiracy.
By Marcia Coyle | Mike Scarcella | February 7, 2021
"Pam Karlan is quite simply the best lawyer I know. The cause of civil rights for all Americans, including but not limited to voting rights, could not possibly have a better advocate," Roberta Kaplan said on Twitter.
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