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Mar30

California Court Issues Preliminary Ruling in Favor of Bar Applicants’ Private Data, Denying Prof. Sander’s Request

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A California Superior Court judge on March 24 issued a preliminary ruling (download PDF) denying Professor Richard Sander’s request for access to bar applicants’ private data from the State Bar of California. Prof. Sander’s lawsuit attempted to compel the State Bar to release information regarding applicants’ race, GPA, and bar exam scores in order to [...]

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Feb03

Feb. 11 Briefing: Sharon Browne Nomination to Legal Services Corp & Status of Judicial Nominations

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Join the Alliance for Justice for a breakfast briefing, “Sharon Browne’s Nomination to the Legal Services Corporation and the Status of Judicial Nominations During the Obama Administration,” on Thursday, February 11, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the EJS offices, 260 California St, 7th Floor, San Francisco. Join us for a light continental breakfast [...]

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Jan28

Coalition Urges Congress Not to Confirm Sharon Browne to Legal Services Corporation Board

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UPDATE2: New posts on Huffington Post and Think Progress. UPDATE: Bob Egelko of the San Francisco Chronicle covers the opposition to Browne in a Feb. 3, 2010, article and join us for a Feb. 11 briefing by Alliance for Justice on the Browne nomination. A coalition of more than seventy civil rights, women’s rights, consumer, [...]

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Jul14

Thomas A. Saenz, Counsel to Los Angeles Mayor, Named MALDEF President and General Counsel

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The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) today announced Thomas A. Saenz, Counsel to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, as its new President and General Counsel. Saenz will join MALDEF in mid-August. (Tom has been an extraordinary ally and supporter of EJS for many years. We congratulate him and wish him much success [...]

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Jun19

Dying While Black: An Examination of Race and the California Death Penalty

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Photo by nodeathpenalty.org The foundation of the Equal Justice Society is based on the premise that racial justice cannot be achieved when the law fails to reflect actual experience. Under existing equal protection law, the constricted “Intent Doctrine” (as established in the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision Washington v. Davis) ignores much of what [...]

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May26

Obama Nominates Sotomayor for Supreme Court

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President Barack Obama today nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor to succeed David Souter as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Obama said Sotomayor has more experience as a judge than any current member of the high court had when nominated, adding she has earned the “respect of colleagues on the bench, the admiration of many [...]

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May07

Kimberly Thomas Rapp at ’2009 Justice Summit: Defending the Public and the Constitution’

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EJS Director of Law and Public Policy Kimberly Thomas Rapp participated as a speaker at yesterday’s 2009 Justice Summit: Defending the Public and the Constitution. The Justice Summit was a public education event initiated by the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, Bar Association of San Francisco, California Public Defenders Association and California Attorneys for Criminal [...]

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Apr30

Kellogg Foundation Awards Equal Justice Society Three-Year Grant

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The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has awarded the Equal Justice Society (EJS) a $1 million, three-year grant to support the organization’s ongoing efforts to address structural racial inequities, restore equal protection jurisprudence and help build a public platform – a “Grand Alliance” – for the racial justice advocacy movement. EJS is a national strategy group heightening [...]

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