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Sep22

We’re Ready to End the Death Penalty and We Need Your Help

Posted by Keith Kamisugi 4 Comments Tags: ben leajous, California, death penalty, McCleskey v. Kemp, SAFE CA, troy davis

Last night’s execution of an innocent man, Troy Anthony Davis, by the State of Georgia demands that we renew efforts to end the death penalty. “Troy’s execution, the exceptional unfairness of it, will only hasten the end of the death penalty in the United States,” wrote Ben Jealous of the NAACP last night. “The world [...]

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Sep08

EJS Meets with Leading Death Penalty Litigators in Montgomery, Ala.

Posted by Keith Kamisugi 0 Comments Tags: death penalty, Equal Justice Initiative, McCleskey v. Kemp

In August, the EJS legal team traveled to Montgomery, Alabama, the birthplace of the civil rights movement, where we met with death penalty litigators from around the country to identify strategies to overturn McCleskey v. Kemp, a 1987 Supreme Court case in which a habeas petitioner presented statistical evidence showing grave disparities in the imposition [...]

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Oct14

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Voter Disenfranchisement Law, Citing Lack of ‘Intentional’ Discrimination

Posted by Keith Kamisugi 2 Comments Tags: 14th Amendment, African American, Farrakhan v. Gregoire, Intent Doctrine, McCleskey v. Kemp, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, voting rights, Voting Rights Act, Washington State, Washington v. Davis

A recent decision by an eleven-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit underscores the importance of the Equal Justice Society’s efforts to overturn the Intent Doctrine. Earlier this year, the Equal Justice Society (EJS), the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, and the American Parole and Probation Association submitted an amicus [...]

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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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Dec11

Share Your Unconscious Bias Stories With Us

Posted by Keith Kamisugi 2 Comments Tags: Brando Simeo Starkey, Gordon v. City of Moreno Valley, hollywood, McCleskey v. Kemp, plot, popular culture, scripts, stories, storylines, unconscious, unconscious bias

The Equal Justice Society is working to deepen awareness of unconscious bias through the use of storytelling in television and movies (read more about our related activities). There are a host of interesting stories that can be packaged to Hollywood to both entertain and educate people on the ways that unintentional racism still permeates. We [...]

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Posts Tagged ‘McCleskey v. Kemp’

We’re Ready to End the Death Penalty and We Need Your Help

EJS Meets with Leading Death Penalty Litigators in Montgomery, Ala.

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Voter Disenfranchisement Law, Citing Lack of ‘Intentional’ Discrimination

Share Your Unconscious Bias Stories With Us

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