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Oct05

‘Litigating Implicit Bias’ Article by Eva Paterson in Latest Issue of Poverty & Race

Posted by Allison Elgart 1 Comment Tags: Allison Elgart, constitution, death penalty, discrimination, eva paterson, Intent Standard, Litigating Implicit Bias, Poverty & Race, Poverty & Race Research Action Council, PRRAC, racial bias, Washington v. Davis

“Litigating Implicit Bias,” an article by EJS President Eva Paterson, appears in the latest issue of Poverty & Race, a bi-monthly newsletter by the Poverty & Race Research Action Council. PRRAC is an organization that connects advocates with social scientists working on race and poverty issues and promotes a research-based advocacy strategy on structural inequality [...]

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Jun22

Connecting the Dots: A Supreme Court Broken

Posted by Keith Kamisugi 0 Comments

The end of the Supreme Court’s 2010-2011 term was marked in part by a series of recent developments and revelations highlighting the dire state of the Supreme Court, an institution that should be a fair and impartial forum for justice. The Court has instead become increasingly damaged, especially with landmark decisions such as in Dukes [...]

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Mar17

Eva Paterson in Huffington Post – Protecting the 14th Amendment

Posted by bilen 0 Comments Tags: 14th Amendment, Birthright Citizenship, Colfax Massacre, Equal Protection Clause, eva paterson, Inherently Unequal, u.s. supreme court

The following op-ed by EJS President Eva Paterson appears in Huffington Post. Protecting the 14th Amendment By Eva Paterson Huffington Post For almost 150 years, the 14th Amendment has been the backbone of civil rights law in America. Its protection of individual rights for all — from freed slaves to immigrants to workers fighting against [...]

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Oct25

EJS Joins Other Organizations in Court Brief Supporting Judge Walker’s Decision on Prop. 8

Posted by Keith Kamisugi 0 Comments Tags: amicus brief, Perry v. Schwarzenegger, prop 8

The Equal Justice Society and more than forty public interest organizations represented pro bono by the law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP today filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals arguing on behalf of gay and lesbian plaintiffs in Perry v. Schwarzenegger. In August, Judge Vaughn Walker, of the U.S. [...]

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Oct09

Reggie Shuford Remarks at GGU for National Lawyers Guild’s Progressive Lawyering Day

Posted by Keith Kamisugi 0 Comments

EJS Director of Law and Policy Reggie Shuford delivered these remarks for National Lawyers Guild’s Progressive Lawyering Day at Golden Gate University on October 9, 2010. Conferences such as today’s are important. I just returned last night from the Airlie Civil Rights Conference in Virginia sponsored every year by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational [...]

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Oct04

Reggie Shuford Lecture on Implicit Bias and the Law at Berkeley Law’s Ruth Chance Mondays

Posted by Keith Kamisugi 0 Comments Tags: 14th Amendment, Atkins v. VA, Berkeley Law, Brown v. Board of Education, Chin v. Runnels, discrimination, Dukes v. Wal-Mart, Equal Protection Clause, Fourth Amendment, Graham v. Florida, Grutter v. Bollinger, Houston Plan, Intent Doctrine, Lawrence v. TX, McCleskey v. Kemp, Plessy v. Ferguson, Reggie Shuford, Roper v. Simmons, Ruth Chance Monday, section 1981, supreme court, Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, Title VI, unconscious bias, Washington v. Davis

Reggie Shuford, EJS Director of Law and Policy, was the guest lecturer today at Ruth Chance Monday, sponsored by Berkeley Law’s Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice. Joining theory and practice, Ruth Chance Mondays is a biweekly luncheon speakers series that brings prominent social justice practitioners to Boalt Hall to discuss current issues and [...]

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Jun15

EJS and Other Organizations File Amicus Brief Supporting Application of Voting Rights Act and Protection of Minority Voting Rights

Posted by Keith Kamisugi 1 Comment Tags: 1965 Voting Rights Act, 9th Circuit, American Parole and Probation Association, amicus brief, Cooley LLP, Farrakhan v. Gregoire, felon disenfranchisement law, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, Protection of Minority Voting Rights, Voting Rights Act, Washington State

The Equal Justice Society (EJS), the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, and American Parole and Probation Association submitted an Amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit case Farrakhan v. Gregoire, which will determine whether Washington State’s felon disenfranchisement law violates the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA). (Download a PDF of [...]

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Apr06

Georgetown Law Journal to Publish Article by EJS Motley Fellow Brando Simeo Starkey on Need for Equal Protection Re-Invigoration

Posted by Keith Kamisugi 0 Comments Tags: 14th Amendment, affirmative action, Brando Simeo Starkey, Charles Lawrence, Equal Protection Clause, Fourteenth Amendment, Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives, Harvard Law Record, Harvard Law School, Inconsistent Originalism and the Need for Equal Protection Re-Invigoration, Institute for Law and Philosophy, Jamestown Project, John E. Cribbet Professor of Law and Philosophy, Judge Constance Baker Motley Fellow, Lawrence Solum, Legal Theory Blog, Originalists, Plessy v. Ferguson, The Id The Ego and Equal Protection, unconscious bias, University of Chicago School of Law, Washington v. Davis

An upcoming issue of the Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives will include the article “Inconsistent Originalism and the Need for Equal Protection Re-Invigoration” by Brando Simeo Starkey, the Equal Justice Society Judge Constance Baker Motley Fellow. The article can be downloaded here. After Washington v. Davis, the Equal Protection Clause, as [...]

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Archive for the ‘law’ Category

‘Litigating Implicit Bias’ Article by Eva Paterson in Latest Issue of Poverty & Race

Connecting the Dots: A Supreme Court Broken

Eva Paterson in Huffington Post – Protecting the 14th Amendment

EJS Joins Other Organizations in Court Brief Supporting Judge Walker’s Decision on Prop. 8

Reggie Shuford Remarks at GGU for National Lawyers Guild’s Progressive Lawyering Day

EJS and Other Organizations File Amicus Brief Supporting Application of Voting Rights Act and Protection of Minority Voting Rights

Georgetown Law Journal to Publish Article by EJS Motley Fellow Brando Simeo Starkey on Need for Equal Protection Re-Invigoration

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