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Common Dreams

Common Cause & Voting Rights Institute File SCOTUS Brief in Challenge to Texas Racial Gerrymander

Common Cause announced that it and Voting Rights Institute have filed an amici brief in support of a challenge to racial gerrymandering in Texas now before the Supreme Court. The groups are supported by the YLS Supreme Court Clinic.

Common Cause & Voting Rights Institute File SCOTUS Brief in Challenge to Texas Racial Gerrymander
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ABA Journal

Yale's civil litigation clinic aims to train law students and make a difference

Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law Heather Gerken, Jeremy Pilaar ’18, and Emma Sokoloff-Rubin ’18 are quoted in an article on the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project.

Yale's civil litigation clinic aims to train law students and make a difference
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CED Clinic Provides Training for Local Refugee Food Entrepreneurs

Yale graduate students and fellows in the Ludwig Center for Community & Economic Development held training sessions for participants in Sanctuary Kitchen’s Kitchen Incubator Program.
CED Clinic Provides Training for Local Refugee Food Entrepreneurs
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New Haven Independent

Westville “New Urbanist” Vision Advances

Kendyl Clausen ’19 is quoted and the Community & Economic Development clinic mentioned in an article on a zoning change to the Westville district of New Haven

Westville “New Urbanist” Vision Advances
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The Hartford Courant

Connecticut Army Veteran Gets Discharge Upgrade

Helen White ’18 is quoted in an article about an Army veteran represented by the Veterans Legal Services Clinic who has won an eight-year legal battle to have his discharge status upgraded to “honorable.”

Connecticut Army Veteran Gets Discharge Upgrade
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Court Declares that EPA Failed To Protect Civil Rights

A federal court ruled in favor of plaintiffs being represented by the Environmental Justice Clinic at Yale Law School and Earthjustice.
Court Declares that EPA Failed To Protect Civil Rights
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New Haven Independent

ICE Deported 1,100 New Haveners

Professor Michael Wishnie ’93 is quoted in an article about undocumented immigrants deported from New Haven County.

ICE Deported 1,100 New Haveners
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Rule of Law Clinic Files Additional Amicus Brief in Travel Ban Case

On March 30, 2018, students from the Rule of Law Clinic filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of a bipartisan group of 52 former senior national security officials.
Rule of Law Clinic Files Additional Amicus Brief in Travel Ban Case
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Slate/ Amicus with Dahlia Lithwick

Don’t’ Call it An Abortion Case

Clinical Lecturer in Law, Associate Research Scholar in Law, and Senior Fellow at the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice Priscilla Smith ’91 was a guest on the podcast, where she discussed NIFLA v. Becerra, now before the Supreme Court.

Don’t’ Call it An Abortion Case
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Food Law Leaders Join the Farm Bill Fray

Yale Law School's Environmental Protection Clinic was involved in releasing three reports that apply a justice lens to the farm bill debate in D.C.
Food Law Leaders Join the Farm Bill Fray