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Vance High School will be renamed Tuesday, possibly for civil rights lawyer Julius Chambers.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Earnest Winston announced in June that the district no longer considered it acceptable to have a school named for Zebulon Vance, a North Carolina governor who fought for the Confederacy.
“Vance owned slaves
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Renowned anti-apartheid struggle and human rights lawyer, Priscilla Jana, passed away on Saturday.
Tributes poured in for Jana, who served as the deputy chairperson of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC). The
The Supreme Court has gone a decade without acting on a major case concerning the Second Amendment, an issue that could receive rare attention in the future by the high court should Judge Amy Coney Barrett be confirmed to the bench in the coming weeks.
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SINGAPORE – Young people can better understand their legal rights and get help with legal advice under a new pilot scheme announced on Monday (Sept 28).
The Youth Community and Legal Clinic will bring together volunteer young lawyers and law students to provide free legal online consultation services to youth
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The Walnut Street bridge was lit up with rainbow lights in June to celebrate LGBTQ pride. (Photo: Haley BeMiller/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
GREEN BAY – The City Council has given initial approval to a sweeping measure that would prohibit discrimination in housing, employment and public spaces based on
“The fight for LGBTQ rights” always sounds grand, and—as grand, sweeping phrases often do—its bravura obscures the grittier, more complex reality. The core of any civil rights movement is brave individuals first realizing, then questioning whatever prejudice has been visited upon them, then rousing themselves to do something about it.
A group of churches and private schools, as well as one pregnancy center, have sued Virginia over a recently enacted law extending anti-discrimination employment protections to include
(CNN) — A group working to restore voting rights to former felons in the battleground state of Florida is racing to deliver money to court clerks to help pay off court fees and fines as a voter-registration deadline and Election Day itself fast approach.
But that effort alone may not
SALT LAKE CITY — The U.S. Department of Justice is honoring a longtime victims rights lawyer in Utah.
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Paul Cassell, a former federal judge and law professor at the University of Utah, endorses the Start by Believing campaign during a press conference in Salt Lake
The $25 million collected by a statewide organization to pay fines and fees for former felons will keep them from having to choose between food, rent or the ballot box, the leader of the effort said Sunday in Fort Myers.
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Desmond Meade, left, executive director of the
CNN — A group working to restore voting rights to former felons in the battleground state of Florida is racing to deliver money to court clerks to help pay off court fees and fines as a voter-registration deadline and Election Day itself fast approach.
But that
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
By Guest Blogger Robin Runge, Adjunct Professor, George Washington University School of Law
It is difficult for me to articulate the significance of Justice Ginsburg’s life and her work as a woman, a lawyer, law professor
In a case filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Loudoun County photographer Bob Updegrove asserts that the law could force him to photograph a same-sex wedding despite his personal opposition to same-sex marriage.
“The government cannot demand that artists create content that violates their deepest convictions,” Jonathan Scruggs,
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — “With the continued increases in police brutality, excessive force and civil rights violations, Harris & Hayden has represented some of the most high-profile civil rights cases in the country. And on the heels of today’s breaking news, finding no one directly charged
Lawyers for both sides appeared before Supreme Court judge Justice Timothy Ginnane on Friday in a final administrative hearing before the civil trial starts on Monday.
Barrister Vanessa Plain, for Ms Loielo, said documents showed Professor Giles received legal advice from within the Department of Health and Human Services that
A Christian conservative legal group has filed lawsuits on behalf of nonprofit ministries and a photographer, saying a new Virginia law offering LGBTQ protections forces them to “abandon” their beliefs.
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Pride flags decorate Market Square in Old Town Alexandria during Pride Month on June 24, 2020,
A Belarusian pro-democracy campaigner and an imprisoned Iranian human rights lawyer have been awarded the Right Livelihood Award, a prize sometimes called the “alternative Nobel,” along with activists from the United States and Nicaragua.
The Stockholm-based Right Livelihood Foundation on October 1 cited human rights activist Ales Byalyatski and his
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