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Government Shutdown Impairs Civil Rights Cases

In the wake of the federal government shutdown, the Department of Justice has asked a court to press pause on all proceedings in United States, et al. v. Texas, et al., a challenge under the Voting Rights Act to Texas’s discriminatory photo ID law, until the Department’s funding is restored. LDF has joined the case on behalf of […]

Good Counsel: How Thurgood Marshall Inspired Me

February is Black History Month and Tell Me More observes the month with a series of short vignettes. In this installment, regular contributor Arsalan Iftikhar shares his black history hero. I’m Arsalan Iftikhar, a civil rights attorney and frequent contributor to Tell Me More’s Barbershop segment. The black history figure who has always been a […]

Goff, Ifill: Seeing race to save our children

In the wake of the disappointing verdict in the Michael Dunn trial, Sherrilyn Ifill and Philip Goff, argue that “[w]ithout an honest effort to engage the realities of race and perception, we will continue to see sanitized prosecutions in cases involving shootings laden with racial implications. And worse, we will see more black and brown children […]

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Gilbert T. Ray

Getzen v. Long: Qualified Immunity

Getzen v. Long Challenging Qualified Immunity Mr. Getzen was sitting on the bathroom floor of the apartment where he was staying, with his hands behind his neck when Deputy Jeff Long and his partner of the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office entered the bathroom with weapons drawn. Long and his partner were responding to a report […]

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Georgina Yeomans

Georgina Yeomans joined LDF as Assistant Counsel in 2021. Prior to joining LDF, Georgina was an associate at the labor law firm Bredhoff & Kaiser PLLC, where she represented labor unions and their members in litigation and administrative proceedings, focusing her practice on representing public-sector labor unions in litigation stemming from the Supreme Court’s decision […]

Georgians Call for Immediate End to Ban on Line-Relief in Preliminary Injunction Hearing

Voters and voting rights groups asked the court to halt a portion of Georgia’s anti-voter law that criminalizes Georgians handing food, water, or other relief to those waiting in long voting lines.  ATLANTA – TODAY, July 18, 2022, Georgians called for the court to grant immediate relief through a preliminary injunction and block the portion […]

Georgia-based Disability Rights Groups Join Fight Against Georgia’s Anti-Voter Law S.B. 202

Three groups joined pending litigation AME Church v. Kemp in an amended complaint that explains how S.B. 202 violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, Rehabilitation Act ATLANTA — Three prominent Georgia-based disability rights groups have joined the broad-based alliance of Georgia voters, civil rights groups, and activists fighting against the implementation of the state’s unconstitutional […]