National Settlement Reached to Preclude the Government’s Categorical Withholding of Asylum Interview Notes
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Candice Francis / Communications Director, LCCR / 415.543.9697 x216 / cfrancis@lccr.com (San Francisco, CA) – The Lawyers’ Committee of the San Francisco Bay Area, with co-counsel Davis …
Governor Brown Signs AB 651 (Bradford), the Reentry & Employment Opportunities Act!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Candice Francis / Communications Director, LCCR / 415.543.9697 x216 / cfrancis@lccr.com (San Francisco, CA) – The Lawyers’ Committee is pleased to report that AB 651, the Reentry …
New Report Exposes a Covert U.S. Government Immigration Program that Unlawfully Prevents Many Muslim Applicants from Becoming Citizens
For Immediate Release Media Contacts: Vicki Fox or Diana Rubio / ACLU SoCal / 213.977.5252 Candice Francis / Communications Director, LCCR / 415.543.9697 x216 (Los Angeles and San Francisco) The ACLU of …
Court Issues Decision Against Federal Government in Challenge to Withholding of Documents From Asylum Seekers
For Immediate Release Media Contact: Candice Francis / Communications Director / LCCR / 415.543.9697 x216 / cfrancis@lccr.com (San Francisco, CA)– On July 10, 2013, a federal judge ruled that immigration …
Study Highlights Racial Disparities in Peninsula Area High School Student Assignment Plan
Disproportionate Impact on Minority Students in East Palo Alto Raises Questions of Legal Liability FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Candice Francis / Communications Director, LCCR / 415.543.9697 x216 / cfrancis@lccr.com SAN FRANCISCO, …
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Preclearance Provisions of the Voting Rights Act, But Strikes Down Formula That Determines Where They Should Apply
Congress left to determine which states are most likely to disenfranchise voters FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Candice Francis / Communications Director, LCCR / 415.543.9697 x216 / cfrancis@lccr.com SAN FRANCISCO – Today, …
U.S. Supreme Court Reaffirms the Value of Diversity in Higher Education
Court sends the case back to appeals court for closer scrutiny FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Candice Francis / Communications Director, LCCR / 415.543.9697 x216 / cfrancis@lccr.com SAN FRANCISCO – Today, in …
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Caltrans Equal Opportunity Program
Access to federal contracts at stake for women and minority owned businesses For Immediate Release Media Contact: Candice Francis / Communications Director, LCCR / 415.543.9697 x216 / cfrancis@lccr.com (San Francisco, …