The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from the Philadelphia district attorney’s office in the racially charged case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, bringing an end to nearly 30 years of litigation over the fairness of the ...
Jacqueline A. Berrien has been the chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) since April 2010. A Harvard Law School graduate, Berrien practiced civil rights law for many years, assisted underrepresented groups as ...
Philadelphia (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal to get a new sentencing hearing for the killing of a Philadelphia police officer 30 years ago. The high ...
Lani Guinier, Bennett Boskey Professor of Law, Harvard Law School You would always get straight talk from professor Derrick Bell. When I was a young lawyer, barely six years out of law school, I was ...
The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth 1922 – 2011 Last year the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth was one of `eleven civil rights pioneers to sign a friend-of-the-court brief written by attorneys of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education ...
The New York Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in the lawsuit to overturn a law passed by the 2010 Democratic legislative majority that would count prison inmates in the communities they are from, instead ...
