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Clinic News

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The Public’s Radio / WBUR

Seafood Supplier for Top Supermarkets Sued for Allegedly Using Child Labor at Fall River Plant (link is external)1

The lawsuit filed by the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic (WIRAC) against Raw Seafoods Inc. is highlighted. Jordan Cozby ’26 is quoted. 

Seafood Supplier for Top Supermarkets Sued for Allegedly Using Child Labor at Fall River Plant (link is external)
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Boston Globe

Migrant Workers Sue Fall River Seafood Processing Plant for Child Labor Violations (link is external)2

The lawsuit filed by the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic (WIRAC) against Raw Seafoods Inc. is highlighted. Chisato Kimura ’25 is quoted.

Migrant Workers Sue Fall River Seafood Processing Plant for Child Labor Violations (link is external)
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Clinic Represents Three Immigrant Children in Lawsuit Alleging Exploitative Child Labor Practices and Hazardous Conditions

The Worker and Immigrant Rights and Advocacy Clinic represents three immigrant children in a new case alleging a seafood processing company violated labor, civil rights, and human rights laws.
Clinic Represents Three Immigrant Children in Lawsuit Alleging Exploitative Child Labor Practices and Hazardous Conditions
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Louisiana Illuminator

It’s Not Easy Being a Green Anole (link is external)3

Visiting Clinical Lecturer Jennifer Skene ’14 was quoted about the evolving conversation around animal rights.

It’s Not Easy Being a Green Anole (link is external)
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The Forecast / Fortify Rights

Forecasting Accountability for Mental Harm as Genocide Against Rohingya (link is external)4

Binger Clinical Professor Emeritus of Human Rights Jim Silk ’89 discussed the recent study by the Lowenstein Internation Human Rights Clinic, “My Tears Could Make a Sea.”

Forecasting Accountability for Mental Harm as Genocide Against Rohingya (link is external)
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Maven’s Notebook

Tribes and Community Organizations Urge Delay in Delta Conveyance Project Hearings (link is external)5

The work of the Environmental Justice Law and Advocacy Clinic in representing the Delta Tribal Environmental Coalition was highlighted. Visiting Clinical Associate Professor in Law Stephanie Safdi ’13 was quoted.

Tribes and Community Organizations Urge Delay in Delta Conveyance Project Hearings (link is external)
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Fiona Doherty Appointed Nathan Baker Clinical Professor of Law (link is external)6

Fiona Doherty ’99, a legal scholar and law professor who founded a Yale-based criminal justice clinic which represents people in criminal cases in New Haven, has been appointed the Nathan Baker Clinical Professor of Law.
Fiona Doherty Appointed Nathan Baker Clinical Professor of Law (link is external)
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USA Today

Police Unions Often Defend Their Own. But Not After the Sonya Massey Shooting (link is external)7

Clinical Lecturer in Law and Policing, Law, and Policy Director of the Justice Collaboratory Jorge X. Camacho ’10 examined the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey and the police union’s response. 

Police Unions Often Defend Their Own. But Not After the Sonya Massey Shooting (link is external)
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The Nation

Biden Said Rent Cap. Here’s What Tenant Organizers Say Must Happen Next (link is external)8

Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law Thomas Silverstein spoke about advocacy for federal rent stabilization.

Biden Said Rent Cap. Here’s What Tenant Organizers Say Must Happen Next (link is external)
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The Washington Post

Judge Throws Out Gateway Pundit’s Bankruptcy Claim (link is external)9

The work of the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic in the recently dismissed Gateway Pundit’s bankruptcy case is highlighted.

Judge Throws Out Gateway Pundit’s Bankruptcy Claim (link is external)

Links

  1. https://thepublicsradio.org/immigration/seafood-supplier-for-top-supermarkets-sued-for-allegedly-using-child-labor-at-fall-river-plant/
  2. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/09/24/business/underage-migrant-child-labor-seafood-processing-fall-river/
  3. https://lailluminator.com/2024/09/01/its-not-easy-being-a-green-anole/
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDXvGnl1TsA&list=PLESAfDmzdxmXnxH_fexfA-HVXvJYmRqyY&index=12
  5. https://mavensnotebook.com/2024/08/08/press-release-tribes-and-community-organizations-urge-delay-in-delta-conveyance-project-hearings/
  6. https://news.yale.edu/2024/07/30/fiona-doherty-appointed-nathan-baker-clinical-professor-law
  7. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/08/01/sonya-massey-killing-police-union-response/74609919007/
  8. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/biden-rent-cap-organizers-say-whats-next/
  9. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/25/judge-throws-out-gateway-pundits-bankruptcy-claim/