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Student Idea Leads to Action from SF City Attorney
After a student in the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project (SFALP) pitched him the idea, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera penned a letter urging acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Mick Mulvaney to continue robust enforcement against predatory and unlawful business practices. “To retreat from the vigorous enforcement that has been the hallmark of this agency would be to undermine the will of Congress, ignore the abuses that fueled the Bureau’s creation, and would serve to abandon the country’s most vulnerable consumers,” Herrera wrote. San...
Ethics Bureau Has Winning Argument in SCOTUS Case
On May 14, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out a Louisiana death row inmate’s conviction for a 2008 triple murder, siding in favor with an argument put forth by the Ethics Bureau at Yale. The clinic has been advocating for the defendant in the case, Robert McCoy, for several years.
Vets Clinic Advocacy Helps Lead to New CT Law
The Connecticut House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 284 in a unanimous vote on May 8, 2018, sending the legislation to the Governor’s desk.
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SRO Moratorium, Westville Zone Advance
Lowenstein Clinic Supports Lawsuit on Migrants in the Mediterranean
The Lowenstein Clinic is involved in legal action in Italy involving a fatal incident in 2017 in which a boat carrying migrants found itself in distress off the coast of Libya.
Groundbreaking Environmental Settlement Signed
The Environmental Justice Clinic was involved in a groundbreaking environmental settlement in North Carolina.