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3 Aug 2011, 7:56 pm by constitutional lawblogger
In addition to the DOJ challenge to Alabama's immigration law HB 56, which we discussed here, and last month's lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, discussed here, a group of clergy from Alabama have also filed a complaint... [read post]
31 Jul 2011, 6:25 pm by Ari Waldman
” In a Complaint from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) representing several students, the SPLC notes that the policies act “as a gag policy that prevents school officials from complying with their legal obligations to keep safe students like Plaintiffs who are perceived as LGBT or gender non-conforming. [read post]
30 Jul 2011, 10:29 pm by lawmrh
Bush administration] 1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart [Picked by Trevor Potter, former counsel, John McCain's 2000 & 2008 campaigns] The Story of My Life by Clarence Darrow (1) [Picked by Morris Dees, co-founder/chief trial attorney, Southern Poverty Law Center] Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being by Martin E.P. [read post]
28 Jul 2011, 5:45 am by Matthew Kolken
The ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center also filed suit earlier this month challenging the law. [read post]
22 Jul 2011, 9:41 am by pgbarnes
The suit was brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the law firm of Faegre & Benson. [read post]
22 Jul 2011, 5:38 am by Nathan Koppel
The suit was brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the law firm of Faegre & Benson on behalf of gay and lesbian students in the district who claim to have suffered severe bullying. [read post]
18 Jul 2011, 3:17 pm
On July 8, 2011, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama challenging the constitutionality of Alabama's new immigration laws. [read post]
15 Jul 2011, 9:17 am by Sarnata Reynolds
The next morning, ten decapitated bodies were found in the truck of a car in Torreon, a city in the center of the country. [read post]
9 Jul 2011, 7:19 pm by Howard Friedman
The Southern Poverty Law Center announced yesterday that it has led a group of civil rights organizations in filing a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of HB56, a strong state law enacted last month by the Alabama legislature to combat illegal immigration. [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]
5 Jul 2011, 8:16 pm
With its multi-hundred million dollar endowment, [The Southern Poverty Law Center] only could find nine candidates? [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 12:53 pm by brian
Immigrant advocacy groups, like the Southern Poverty Law Center Immigrant Justice Project [advocacy website] argue that the South Carolina laws and other similar laws invite racial profiling and infringe on human rights: It is extremely disappointing to see the South Carolina state legislature following in these ill-fated footsteps by passing this legislation that will sacrifice citizens’ safety, cost the state an untold amount in … [read post]
20 Jun 2011, 11:37 am by The Greatest American Lawyer
  We get like you do, we all do, we get probably get ten requests a week for contributions, and so many of them you want to send them some money, whether it’s Amnesty International or Southern Poverty Law Center or on and on and on. [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 3:29 pm by immigrationprof
One of the Southeast's largest employers of foreign guestworkers and its owners will be held accountable for routinely cheating workers out of their wages under a recent federal court ruling in a suit brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center.... [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 1:00 pm by Federal and Extradition Defense
Along with the ACLU and NILC, the coalition filing the lawsuit includes the ACLU of Georgia, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Asian Law Caucus. [read post]
3 Jun 2011, 4:09 am
The American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, the Southern Poverty Law Center and several immigrant rights organizations and individuals are challenging the law in Atlanta's federal district court. [read post]
11 May 2011, 9:08 am by annalthouse@gmail.com (annalthouse)
Gene Nichol, professor and director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina School of Law. [read post]
27 Apr 2011, 6:58 am by Chandra Bhatnagar, Human Rights Program
  The allegations made by the EEOC against Signal mirror the claims the ACLU and our co-counsel (Southern Poverty Law Center, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Louisiana Justice Institute and the law firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf) brought in a separate lawsuit on the Indian workers' behalf. [read post]