Join Us at Our Motley Luncheon on June 28!

The Equal Justice Society's annual Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellowship Luncheon is on Thursday, June 28, 2012, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at The City Club in San Francisco.

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May10

EJS to Present at ‘Implicit Bias Across the Law’ Book Conference at Harvard Law School on June 14

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EJS President Eva Paterson will join many of the country’s leading minds on implicit bias theory at the “Implicit Bias and the Law” book conference on June 14 at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School. Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., the founding board chair of EJS, established the [...]

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May10

EJS Legal Director Allison Elgart at White House Briefing on Judicial Nominations by Alliance for Justice

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EJS Legal Director Allison Elgart and EJS Board Member Tobias Barrington Wolff, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, were among 150 leaders who went to the White House this week to share their experiences and concerns about judicial nominations with administration officials, including Attorney General Eric Holder and the president’s judicial selection team. [...]

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May03

EJS Among Calif. Group Meeting with White House About Judicial Nominations

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EJS Legal Director Allison Elgart is among a group of California community leaders traveling to Washington, D.C., on Monday, May 7, to meet with White House officials about the vacancy crisis in America’s federal courts, including the eight “emergency” vacancies and three upcoming retirements in California. Nearly one out of every ten federal judgeships remains [...]

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Apr27

EJS Supports Reception Honoring ICDP’s First Mission to U.S.

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Allison Elgart, EJS Legal Director, attended a special reception on April 24 hosted by the Consul General of Spain in San Francisco in honor of Asunta Vivó Cavaller, the Secretary-General of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty (ICDP) on the occasion of the ICDP’s first mission to the United States. The ICDP is a [...]

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Apr23

SAFE California Act to Replace Death Penalty Wins Place on Nov. Ballot

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Original post by Jeanne Woodford, former Warden at San Quentin State Prison, current Executive Director at Death Penalty Focus, and official proponent of the SAFE California Campaign. It’s official. The SAFE California Act (http://www.safecalifornia.org), the initiative to replace the death penalty with life in prison with no possibility of parole, has qualified for the November ballot. The last [...]

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Apr20

Judge Finds Racial Bias in Death Penalty Sentencing of North Carolina Man

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Just days before the 25th anniversary of McCleskey v. Kemp, a North Carolina judge today ruled that racial bias impacted the death penalty conviction of Marcus Robinson and re-sentenced him to to life imprisonment without possibility of parole. This was the first case applying the historic and ground-breaking Racial Justice Act, enacted by the North [...]

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Apr16

Eric Yamamoto Awarded Prestigious Fred T. Korematsu Professorship

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Originally posted on the William S. Richardson School of Law website. Prof. Yamamoto is a co-founder of EJS and a former member of our board of directors. All of us at EJS congratulate him on this distinguished honor! The William S. Richardson School of Law has named University of Hawai‘i Law Professor Eric K. Yamamoto [...]

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Mar29

Novella Coleman Selected as 2012-2013 Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow

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The Equal Justice Society has selected Novella Coleman as our 2012-2013 Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow, effective October 2012. “We’re excited to have Novella join us later this year as our Motley Fellow,” said EJS President Eva Paterson. “We look forward to adding her experience in litigation research and death penalty defense work [...]

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