In honor of Black History Month, Thompson Coburn has created a free educational coloring book celebrating Gloria Bradford, the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Texas School of Law.
In honor of Black History Month, Eckert Seamans is celebrating Black Legal Trailblazers who are powerful examples of leadership in the legal profession, helping to bring about change, progress, and inclusiveness.
AUSTIN - The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, along with pro bono counsel Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP and Bernabei & Kabat PLLC, have received an order from a federal district court, to intervene in SFFA v. University of Texas at Austin on behalf of three organizations and a diverse group of eight students.
AUSTIN - Gov. Greg Abbott’s order to restrict each county in Texas to one secure ballot drop box is unconstitutional and a direct act of voter suppression, a lawsuit filed today against Abbott and Texas Secretary of State Ruth Hughs argues.
The civil rights movement gave millions of people a new share in the American Dream. Tragically, many violent crimes committed against black families struggling for equality during this time remain unsolved.
BROWNSVILLE – A lawsuit brought by Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina and West Virginia against federal officials and agencies alleges that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program is not based on firm constitutional ground.
HOUSTON – Blacks Lives Matter: Houston and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Texas, along with six other organizations, have called for the suspension and removal of the 209th District Criminal Court Judge Michael McSpadden for comments made in a Feb. 23 Houston Chronicle report the groups claim show racial bias.
HOUSTON – Two of the country’s oldest civil rights organizations have brought a federal lawsuit against Capital One, N.A., according to recent Houston Division of the Southern District of Texas records.
LUBBOCK – The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) and the National Employment Law Project have filed a motion to intervene in a case by the State of Texas against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) involving criminal records guidance.
HOUSTON – The U.S. Department of Justice has confirmed that it will withdraw its claim that a Texas’ voter-ID law was implemented with discriminatory intent.
Washington, D.C. – On Jan. 31 the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will not hear arguments at this time over Texas’s photo ID law, which the full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down as racially discriminatory last summer.
AUSTIN – A coalition led by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is preparing for the November election by protecting voters’ rights in Texas and across the country.
AUSTIN – A federal district court entered an order to ease Texas’s strict photo identification law and allow voters without ID to cast a regular ballot this November.
AUSTIN – On July 20 the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found Texas’s photo ID law, seen as one of the strictest in the nation, in violation of federal laws prohibiting discrimination.
Despite the ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that Texas was no longer required to get preclearance from the federal government before making any changes to its voting laws, the Obama administration is suing the state to stop its new voter identification laws.
