Civil Rights Groups Join Equal Justice Society in Brief Urging Court to Strike Down Anti-Equality Law in Michigan
Posted by Keith Kamisugi 1 Comment Tags: 14th Amendment, AAJC, AALDEF, Asian American Justice Center, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Asian Pacific American Legal Center APALC, Association of Asian American Attorney and CPA Firms, CAA, California Voting Rights Institute, Chinese for Affirmative Action, Council of Asian American Business Associations, Equal Protection Clause, equal rights advocates, eva paterson, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, michigan, National Women's Law Center, proposal 2, Public Advocates, South Asian Network, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, WorksafeThe Equal Justice Society and more than a dozen other civil rights organizations this week filed an amicus brief (PDF) in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, urging the court to strike down Michigan’s anti-equality Proposal 2 as unconstitutional. In its brief, EJS argues that Proposal 2 violates the Equal Protection Clause [...]