The Equal Justice Society is a national legal organization focused on restoring Constitutional safeguards against discrimination.
DonateMona Tawatao is a Senior Attorney at the Western Center on Law and Poverty and a member of the Equal Justice Society board of directors. On the train from O’Hare to downtown Chicago, my seat mate, eyeing the materials I was reading in preparation for the Mind Science conference at Northwestern Law School the next day (April [...]
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today in the case of Associated General Contractors, San Diego Chapter v. Caltrans (AGC v. Caltrans), affirming the California Department of Transportation’s outreach program to promote fairness and equity in its federal contracting. Download the opinion AGC brought suit in 2009 challenging Caltrans’ Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program, [...]
Today, March 21, is the UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. This year’s theme for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination was chosen to highlight the problem of racism in sports, which remains a disturbing occurrence in many parts of the world, as well as to raise awareness of the [...]
EJS President Eva Paterson, EJS Board Chair Kate Kendell, and our board of directors welcome two new board members: Priscilla Ocen, Associate Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, and Jayashri Srikantiah, Professor of Law and Director of Stanford Law School’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic. Professor Priscilla Ocen‘s work examines the relationship between race and gender identities and [...]
The Equal Justice Society signed on to amicus briefs filed with the U.S. Supreme Court last week in two marriage equality cases. In Hollingsworth v. Perry, EJS signed on to an amicus brief filed by Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in support of the Ninth Circuit’s decision holding that California’s Proposition 8, which bans same-sex [...]
The Equal Justice Society is moving to Oakland as of April 1, 2013. Our last day of business at 260 California in San Francisco will be March 29. Our new address will be: Equal Justice Society 1999 Harrison Street, Suite 800 Oakland, CA 94612 (map) Our phone numbers will remain the same: 415-288-8700 Main Line [...]
UPDATE APRIL 16, 2013: A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld the Caltrans program ensuring that minority and women-owned businesses are on equal footing to compete for federally-funded contracts. Read the press release from the Lawyers’ Committee here. Download the opinion here | SF Chronicle | Sacramento Bee FEBRUARY 11, 2013 — [...]
Eva Paterson will be the featured speaker on Feb. 20 at a combined lunch for the African American Attorney Brown Bag group and the Black Partners Group. For more information about this event, contact Christin J. Hill of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP at chill@orrick.com. A preview of Eva’s remarks: Various cultures hold dear the [...]