Attorneys and detainees have filed 100 habeas corpus petitions in Oklahoma federal courts since September, according to ...

For civil rights lawyers, attorneys' fees paid by the government play a critical role in funding work on behalf of indigent clients and in deterring unlawful conduct by government actors. In April, ...

Alan Barry Jacobson, a civil rights attorney who spent decades advancing desegregation and special education in government ...

The city of Antioch and civil rights attorney John Burris on Friday announced the settlement of long-standing police abuse ...

Officials with the city of Antioch and its Police Department met with civil rights attorney John Burris and his firm to sign ...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act by President Lyndon Baines Johnson. The long-debated and filibustered act was enacted to prohibit discrimination in ...

Civil rights attorney S. Lee Merritt filed an amicus curiae brief opposing the Alameda County District Attorney's motion to ...

Alligator Alcatraz federal case will move from Miami to Florida's Middle District MIAMI — After a hearing in federal court on Monday in Downtown Miami, civil rights attorneys said there was more ...

ATLANTA — Local civil rights activists and attorneys are reacting to President Donald Trump’s new Department of Justice freeze on civil rights cases litigation. According to a memo, DOJ attorneys ...

They have a proper place in disparate-impact cases.