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Clyde Meikle dedicated himself while incarcerated to self-improvement, rehabilitation, and service. With the help of Law School students in the Peter Gruber Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic, Meikle was resentenced to 28 years in January 2021 and was released from prison in May.
Yale College alumni Jennifer Millstone ’00 B.A. and David Millstone ’99 B.A. made a generous gift to create The Millstone Fund for Criminal Justice Reform at Yale Law School.
The Yale Law School Free Exercise Clinic co-authored an amicus brief in support of Amish plaintiffs’ challenge of a law compelling them to use modern septic systems in violation of their religious beliefs.
The settlement ensures that the Army will reconsider thousands of decisions involving Iraq and Afghanistan-era veterans with a less-than-fully-honorable discharge.
The U.S. Supreme Court today struck down the Trump administration’s attempt to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, ruling that the Administration’s efforts to end DACA violated federal law.
After alumni discovered that a plaque in memory of their friend Kendrick King Kelley III ’66 was missing from the Law School, they started a scholarship fund in his name and returned to the School with his friends and family for the plaque's replacement.
A jubilant crowd gathered at the newly opened Robert C. and Christina Baker Hall on September 20, 2018, for a celebratory ribbon-cutting ceremony and dedication.
Late in the evening on January 28, 2017, a federal judge in Brooklyn issued a nationwide temporary stay blocking the U.S. government from deporting people pursuant to the Trump Administration’s January 27, 2017 Executive Order.