UPDATE 08/31/2022: All of us at the Equal Justice Society wish Eva Paterson, our founding President, a happy retirement after more than four decades as a civil rights champion, community leader, and litigator, including 22 years leading EJS and 13 years as Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San FranciscoContinue reading "EJS President Eva Paterson to Retire in 2022"
EJS Brief in Yu v. Idaho State University Argues Implicit Bias is Probative of Intentional Discrimination Under Title VI
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals accepted an amicus brief (https://bit.ly/3wLmnwS) by the Equal Justice Society (EJS) and Strindberg & Scholnick, LLC filed in Yu v. Idaho State University. The brief supports a former doctoral psychology candidate’s national origin discrimination suit arguing that implicit bias is probative and may be used as evidence of intentional discrimination underContinue reading "EJS Brief in Yu v. Idaho State University Argues Implicit Bias is Probative of Intentional Discrimination Under Title VI"
Antisemitism on the Rise
Some of you know that I come from a military family. We lived outside of the U.S. during most of the 1950s. I was born in San Antonio, Texas, when Plessy v Ferguson was still good law. Before my family returned to the States in 1960, we toured France where we had been living. My Dad wasContinue reading "Antisemitism on the Rise"