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WIRAC Aids Communications Workers’ Union in Challenge of Contractor Mandate

The Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic represents the Communications Workers of America Local 1298 in a new matter.
WIRAC Aids Communications Workers’ Union in Challenge of Contractor Mandate
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The Yale Daily News

Law School Clinic’s Discrimination Case on Behalf of Black Veterans Proceeds (link is external)1

The Veterans Legal Services Clinic’s lawsuit representing Conley Monk Jr., against the VA was highlighted. Jared Hirschfield ’25 was quoted.

Law School Clinic’s Discrimination Case on Behalf of Black Veterans Proceeds (link is external)
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WSHU

Yale Veterans Clinic Sues VA Over Gender Confirmation Surgery (link is external)2

The Veterans Legal Services Clinic’s new lawsuit representing the Transgender American Veterans Association against the VA was covered. 

Yale Veterans Clinic Sues VA Over Gender Confirmation Surgery (link is external)
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The New York Times

Transgender Veterans Sue V.A. Over Gender-Affirming Surgeries (link is external)3

The Veterans Legal Services Clinic’s new lawsuit representing the Transgender American Veterans Association against the VA was covered. 

Transgender Veterans Sue V.A. Over Gender-Affirming Surgeries (link is external)
Seal of the VA

Clinic Lawsuit Challenges VA Denial of Gender-Affirming Surgery

The Veterans Legal Services Clinic represents the Transgender American Veterans Association in a second federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, challenging VA’s denial of TAVA’s 2016 rulemaking petition requesting gender-affirming surgery.
Clinic Lawsuit Challenges VA Denial of Gender-Affirming Surgery
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Yale Daily News

Yale Law Professor Files Amicus Brief on Colorado’s Habitual Criminal Law (link is external)4

Clinical Lecturer Daniel Loehr was interviewed about the recent amicus brief he filed before the Colorado Supreme Court. Balen Essak-Hernandez ’25 and Courtney Perales ’25 were quoted.

Yale Law Professor Files Amicus Brief on Colorado’s Habitual Criminal Law (link is external)
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Lawfare

Threading the Needle in United States v. Mackey — A Commentary by Tobin Raju (link is external)5

Tobin Raju is a Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law and Associate Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School.

Threading the Needle in United States v. Mackey — A Commentary by Tobin Raju (link is external)
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The Yale Daily News

Interdisciplinary Graduate Course Set to Yield Four Two-Family Homes in Newhallville (link is external)6

Clinical Professor of Law Anika Singh Lemar was quoted about the joint Law School, School of Architecture, and School of Management course, “Housing Connecticut: Developing Healthy and Sustainable Neighborhoods.”

Interdisciplinary Graduate Course Set to Yield Four Two-Family Homes in Newhallville (link is external)
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Slate

2016 Election Fraudster “Ricky Vaughn” Might Finally Be About to Face the Music (link is external)7

The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic was mentioned for an amicus brief they filed with Protect Democracy and Richard L. Hasen in United States v. Mackey.

2016 Election Fraudster “Ricky Vaughn” Might Finally Be About to Face the Music (link is external)
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Stars and Stripes

Lawsuit Claims Racial Discrimination Against Black veterans by VA in Disability Claims Spanning Decades (link is external)8

The Veterans Legal Services Clinic was mentioned following a federal court’s rejection of the government’s motion to dismiss a suit filed by the clinic. Jared Hirschfield ’25 was quoted.

Lawsuit Claims Racial Discrimination Against Black veterans by VA in Disability Claims Spanning Decades (link is external)

Links

  1. https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/04/16/law-school-clinics-discrimination-case-on-behalf-of-black-veterans-proceeds/
  2. https://www.wshu.org/connecticut-news/2024-04-15/ct-yale-vets-gender-confirmation-surgery
  3. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/us/politics/veterans-transgender-lawsuit.html
  4. https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/04/10/188767/
  5. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/threading-the-needle-in-united-states-v.-mackey
  6. https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/04/03/interdisciplinary-graduate-course-set-to-yield-four-two-family-homes-in-newhallville/
  7. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/04/2016-election-fraudster-ricky-vaughn-conviction-appeal.html
  8. https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2024-04-01/veterans-lawsuit-racial-discrimination-disability-claims-13468332.html?=/&subcategory=484%7CGolf