FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 13, 2017 Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Partner Address Hate Targeting Students and Faculty of Color at California High School WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (“Lawyers’ Committee”), represented by Jones Day, recently requested permission from the court to file an amicus curiae, “friend of the court,” brief in the Northern District of California in the case of Shen et al. v. Albany Unified School District et al. The National Women’s Law Center
When Hate Comes to Campus This blog was originally posted on the Huffington Post on May 23, 2017. Nadia N. Aziz In the Spring of 2006, as I was walking out of class to head back to my dorm, my eyes were drawn to a newspaper left on an empty desk – an image of a bloody, shot up Quran surrounded by bullets. A student-run newspaper published an anti-Islam edition. Paper in hand, I quickly walked back to my dorm where