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By Mel Gagarin | December 18th, 2009 | Category: Media Watch | No Comments » December 18th, 2009

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New civil rights chief vows more hate-crimes enforcement
The Obama administration’s new civil rights chief said Thursday that he was “shocked” to learn of the steep decline in hate-crime prosecutions during the Bush presidency and vowed to combat violence stemming from hatred and bias.

Md. colleges deny bias in [...]

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By Mel Gagarin | December 16th, 2009 | Category: Media Watch | No Comments » December 16th, 2009

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D.C. to pay $8.25 million to settle mass arrest suit
The D.C. government and a nonprofit civil rights organization have settled a class-action lawsuit brought by hundreds of protesters and bystanders arrested during a downtown demonstration in 2002.

In push for gender equity, turnabout is not fair play
The U.S. [...]

By Mel Gagarin | December 3rd, 2009 | Category: Media Watch | No Comments » December 3rd, 2009

LDF News and Media Today:
A sampling of Race, Justice, Equality and Democracy in the news.
Former Solicitor General Feels the Wrath of Senators
John Payton, the director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund sitting to Garre’s right, denounced the Supreme Court’s decisions.

At Senate Judiciary Committee Iqbal Rollback Hearing, Dems Go After [...]

By Mel Gagarin | December 1st, 2009 | Category: Media Watch | No Comments » December 1st, 2009

LDF News and Media Today:
A sampling of Race, Justice, Equality and Democracy in the news.
Supreme Court Schedules Major Gun Rights Case
There are at least 30 of them — ably reposted at ChicagoGunCase.com — plus two unaffiliated ones filed by the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund and the Brady Center To Prevent Gun [...]

By Mel Gagarin | November 30th, 2009 | Category: Media Watch | No Comments » November 30th, 2009

LDF News and Media Today:
A sampling of Race, Justice, Equality and Democracy in the news.
Congress keeps up pressure on Iqbal, Twombly

Also scheduled to testify at the Judiciary hearing are two critics of the Iqbal decision, John Payton of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and Stephen Burbank of the University of Pennsylvania [...]

By Mel Gagarin | November 24th, 2009 | Category: Media Watch | No Comments » November 24th, 2009

LDF News and Media Today:
A sampling of Race, Justice, Equality and Democracy in the news.

Right and Left Join Forces on Criminal Justice
In the next several months, the Supreme Court will decide at least a half-dozen cases about the rights of people accused of crimes involving drugs, sex and corruption. Civil liberties groups [...]