UPDATED JULY 9, 2:45 P.M. PT: Our office can now access the Internet after having been offline since Monday evening. Emails to our staff sent after Monday evening were queued up and are now being delivered to our inboxes. It may take a few hours for all of the queued email to reach us. Our [...]

By David Salniker EJS is delighted to announce that, as of May 1, Sara Jackson, our 2007-8 Motley Fellow and National Network Coordinator, has been promoted to the position of Staff Attorney. Sara has been doing extraordinary work as our liaison to the Impact209 Coalition in California and as our contact to the national and [...]

By Sara Jackson The Equal Justice Society continues its efforts to challenge Proposition 209, and advocate for the continued importance of equal opportunity policies and programs. Over the past several months, EJS and the Impact 209 Coalition collaborated with Drew Westen of Westen Strategies and Celinda Lake of Lake Research Partners to conduct messaging and [...]

By Kimberly Thomas Rapp and Claudia Peña The U.S. Supreme Court this term is hearing a number of cases that may have important implications for maintaining and advancing civil rights in the years ahead. EJS has partnered with colleagues around the country to file amicus curiae or friend of the court briefs in several matters. [...]

By Kimberly Thomas Rapp Since its founding, EJS has been working with allies to counter the conservative right-wing imbalance in the courts that has limited the reach of antidiscrimination law and undermined civil rights policy. As a part of this effort, we continue to collaborate with Supreme Court litigators, general counsels and attorneys of legal [...]