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Dec17

Prominent Bar Associations, Attorneys and Stanford Law Dean Oppose Sander’s Data Requests

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Last fall, the California Bar Association again denied Professor Richard Sander and his research partners’ request for private data on recent bar applicants. Sander and his research team seek to utilize this data to study the relationship between affirmative action and bar-passage rates for students of color. The data requested by Sander and his researchers [...]

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Aug16

Invitation to Take Survey on Immigration Forum

Posted by Keith Kamisugi 0 Comments

The Equal Justice Society, Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Latino Issues Forum, Greenlining Institute and Centro Legal de la Raza would like to once again thank the participants for their interest in our July 31 panel, “Immigration and the Black Community: Conflict of Common Interest?” held at the Oakland Museum.

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Aug08

DREAM Act part II

Posted by Keith Kamisugi 3 Comments

A recent posting on the ImmigrationProf Blog highlights the debate about the military service provisions that are in the DREAM Act. A father, whose son was a soldier died in Iraq, made this impassioned caution to those seeking passage of the DREAM Act, due to the military service option as a path to legalization: It [...]

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Aug02

Special Thanks to Our Immigration and the Black Community Panelists and Links to Their Bios

Posted by Keith Kamisugi 0 Comments

I wanted to once again thank our co-sponsors, Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Latino Issues Forum, Greenlining Institute and Centro Legal de la Raza. I want to also give a special thank you to the students of R.I.S.E., who provide Spanish translation throughout the program. I also wanted to thank the members of Lucha Unida [...]

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Aug01

Feedback on Immigration and the Black Community

Posted by Keith Kamisugi 0 Comments

I wanted to say thank you to our audience, panelists, and cosponsors for coming out last night. In the next days and weeks we are hoping to continue the discussion on these important topics, and will be providing additional information, resources and commentary. We really hope that as many people and as many different viewpoints [...]

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Jul27

7-year-old Gives to EJS

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One of our attendees at the July 24 luncheon learned from her mother about the work of EJS and on her own decided to donate a dollar and change to us.  She is our youngest donor to date!

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Jul25

Thank you for your support of our 2007 luncheon!

Posted by Keith Kamisugi 1 Comment

We’d like to thank the attendees, sponsors and luncheon co-chairs for supporting our 2nd Annual Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellowship Luncheon yesterday. We’d especially like to thank Morrison & Foerster LLP for their sponsorship and Dr. Shakti Butler for her incredible presentation on unconscious racial bias. Visit this page for a link to photos [...]

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Jun25

Intent Doctrine: Its Relationship to Seattle and Louisville School Cases and the Need to Preserve Brown’s Legacy

Posted by Keith Kamisugi 4 Comments

UPDATE JUNE 28: The Supreme Court today handed down its decision on the Seattle and Louisville schools cases. Read our statement here. This term, the Supreme Court faces a question that it set itself on a collision course with three decades ago.[1] The Court will decide whether school districts in Seattle and Louisville can consider [...]

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