By Vanessa L. Holton, General Counsel, The State Bar of California On August 23, 2018, a California appeals court held that the State Bar does not need to modify private demographic information that it received from bar applicants in order to produce a supposedly anonymous dataset for the public. This important decision ensures that state agenciesContinue reading "Court of Appeal Upholds State Bar’s Decision to Protect Bar Applicant Privacy in Sanders v State Bar, Case Affecting Law Students of Color"
Kavanaugh May Put Disparate Impact on the Chopping Block
Dean Erwin Chermerinsky put the fear of God into me in describing his predictions for cases a Justice Kavanaugh would overturn. Erwin predicts Kavanaugh would provide the fifth vote that would hold the use of disparate impact in Title VII and Title VIII to be an illegal use of race!! Thinking about this caused meContinue reading "Kavanaugh May Put Disparate Impact on the Chopping Block"
Eva Paterson’s Op-ed on Kavanaugh in SF Chronicle
Opinion: Kavanaugh will undermine progress made on justice for all By Eva Paterson San Francisco Chronicle Sept. 5, 2018 Facebook | Twitter Brett Kavanaugh has been nominated by President Trump to fill the vacancy created by the premature retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy. Civil rights activists, abortion rights advocates, the disability rights community, and those concerned with limitingContinue reading "Eva Paterson’s Op-ed on Kavanaugh in SF Chronicle"