It is with deep sorrow that all of us at the Equal Justice Society mourn the passing of Barbara Caulfield, a member of our board of directors. “Barbara and I met when we were young women at Northwestern University during the 1960s,” said EJS President Eva Paterson. “She was a fighter at that early ageContinueContinue reading “EJS Mourns the Passing of Barbara Caulfield”
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EJS Accepting Applications for 2011-2012 Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellowship
The Equal Justice Society is now accepting applications for its 2011-2012 Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellowship, named after the first African-American woman to serve on the federal bench. Applicants for the one-year, paid fellowship should be recent law school graduates with up to five years of work experience after law school. Applications mustContinueContinue reading “EJS Accepting Applications for 2011-2012 Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellowship”
EJS, Others File Brief on Prelim. Injunction Against Ariz. Anti-Immigrant Statute
The Equal Justice Society, the Asian American Institute and thirty-six other public interest organizations, represented pro bono by the law firm Covington & Burling LLP, have filed an amicus brief in Friendly House v. Whiting, supporting the plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction against SB 1070, Arizona’s disturbing new immigration statute. The lawsuit, a classContinueContinue reading “EJS, Others File Brief on Prelim. Injunction Against Ariz. Anti-Immigrant Statute”