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23 Dec 2011, 8:30 am by Matthew Kolken
The Justice Department, the A.C.L.U., and the Southern Poverty Law Center have challenged the constitutionality of the law arguing that only the federal government maintains constitutional authority over the regulation of federal immigration law. [read post]
24 Jun 2013, 8:53 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
The ACLU, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Law Offices of Elizabeth Alexander recently filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of the more than 1,100 prisoners confined at EMCF. [read post]
13 Sep 2019, 11:00 am by Melissa Crow
Melissa Crow is a senior supervising attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project. [read post]
16 Dec 2017, 8:50 am
According to the World Income Inequality Database, the US has the highest Gini rate (measuring inequality) of all Western Countries The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality characterizes the US as “a clear and constant outlier in the child poverty league. [read post]
29 Dec 2015, 10:15 am
Evie Priestman — a transgender high school student in Arlington, Virginia — was cited in Southern Poverty Law Center’s amicus brief on behalf of Gavin Grimm with the Southern Poverty Law Center. [read post]
12 Sep 2012, 12:59 pm by Lisa Steffek, PhD
Federal Hearing into Juvenile Treatment Opens, Newschief.com TAMPA – Lawyers for the Southern Poverty Law Center are trying to persuade a federal judge to halt what they say are abusive practices aimed at juvenile inmates at the Polk County Jail, including the use of pepper spray. [read post]
6 Oct 2015, 5:56 am by Staci Zaretsky
* While we're loath to continue giving this woman airtime, it turns out that infamous Kentucky clerk Kim Davis's law firm, Liberty Counsel, was recently declared a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. [read post]
17 Mar 2022, 2:06 pm by lennyesq
”   *** Silberman was referring to protesters at a March 10 Federalist Society event that hosted Waggoner, who is general counsel of the Alliance Defending Freedom, an organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated a hate group. [read post]
8 Jul 2011, 11:00 am by Nathan Koppel
The Southern Poverty Law Center and other advocacy groups today filed suit in federal court in Huntsville, Alabama, challenging the state’s new immigration law, which makes it a crime to be in Alabama without valid immigration documentation. [read post]
20 Nov 2016, 9:01 pm by Ronald D. Rotunda
  In particular, a prominent and respected civil rights organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC),  should embrace the First Amendment—especially so when it counts among its central purposes, “teaching tolerance. [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 3:00 pm
It also violates U.S. law, so we, along with the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center, filed suit against the administration on behalf of several nonprofit organizations that provide assistance to refugees and asylum seekers. [read post]
29 Nov 2018, 9:24 am by Erin McCarthy Holliday
In addition to its notice of appeal, the Justice Department asked the court to respond within one day without giving the plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU’s Immigrants Rights Project and Southern Poverty Law Center, an opportunity to respond. [read post]
4 Jul 2021, 5:07 am
Here's the previous post about the 9-hour stand-off with the police.The WaPo article quotes Freddy Cruz of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC): "Especially with these sovereign Moorish groups, there is this idea that is rooted in ancient civilizations like the Aztecs, the Olmecs, Incas... [read post]
14 Jun 2019, 10:30 am by Unknown
Immigration Courts Became a Deportation Tool (Southern Poverty Law Center & Innovation Law Lab, June 2019) [text]Burgeoning Immigration Judge Workloads (TRAC, May 2019) [text]Chaos, Confusion, and Danger: The Remain in Mexico Program in El Paso (Women's Refugee Commission, May 2019) [text]Department of State Report: Implementation of Presidential Proclamation 9645, December 8, 2017 to March 31, 2019 [text via ImmigrationProf Blog]Effective… [read post]
16 Feb 2012, 6:18 pm by pittlegalscholarship
Bright (Southern Center for Human Rights) presents “Race, Poverty, Innocence and Death: Injustice in America. [read post]
9 Apr 2019, 8:28 am by Public Employment Law Press
Past honorees include General Colin Powell, Senator Daniel Inouye, the Southern Poverty Law Center, TheDream.Us, and Gerda Weissman Klein.For more information, contact Maria Frausto at the American Immigration Council at mfrausto@immcouncil.orgor 202-507-7526. [read post]
9 Apr 2019, 8:28 am by Public Employment Law Press
Past honorees include General Colin Powell, Senator Daniel Inouye, the Southern Poverty Law Center, TheDream.Us, and Gerda Weissman Klein.For more information, contact Maria Frausto at the American Immigration Council at mfrausto@immcouncil.orgor 202-507-7526. [read post]
24 Feb 2017, 11:16 am by John Hopkins
Human Rights Defense Center Women’s Law Project Workplace Fairness Southern Poverty Law Center Over a hundred more This bill (known as H.R. 985) seeks to essentially eliminate the rights of all Americans to seek redress in our court system through class actions or multidistrict litigation efforts, which are often the only options for injured patients and consumers to level the playing field and seek compensation when they have been harmed… [read post]
8 Mar 2012, 3:52 pm by jleaming@acslaw.org
Department of Justice, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the ACLU and the National Immigration Law Center lodged the lawsuit against Alabama, lambasted nationally for crafting an an over-the-top, even cruel law in a state where less than 4 percent of the population is foreign-born. [read post]
23 Aug 2023, 4:02 am by Dan Filler
  In his prior life, he worked as a civil rights lawyer at the Southern Poverty Law Center and served as SPLC's legal director before becoming a magistrate judge in the Middle District of Alabama. [read post]