Links of Interest, November 12-16, 2012

Immigration Reform The American Constitution Society has released an issue brief on state and local efforts to create and enforcement immigration law. The Southern Poverty Law Center was granted access to immigrant detention records in Louisiana, as it seeks to determine whether state and local...
November 16, 2012

Current Legal Events: The Fifth Circuit and the Immigration Debate

Last week, the 5th Circuit agreed to rehear Villas at Parkside Partners v. Farmers Branch, a civil rights lawsuit challenging a Texas ordinance that required all adults living in rental housing within the city of Farmer’s Branch to obtain a $5 occupancy license conditioned upon the occupant's citize...
September 26, 2012

Links of Interest: July 2-6, 2012

Criminal Justice The Just Policy Blog of the Justice Policy Institute had a thoughtful post on solitary confinement. The post links back to video of testimony before a hearing of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights (Senate Committee on the Judiciary) entitled on Ju...
July 6, 2012

Serving the Needs of Both Immigration Courts and the People Appearing in Them

Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice has signed on to a letter to Congress (.pdf) supporting expansion of the Legal Orientation Program established by the Executive Office for Immigration at the Department of Justice in 2002.  The LOP provides funding to state and local organizations that work with de...
March 28, 2012

Links of Interest — May 13, 2011

Court Reform/Judicial Accountability Chicago Appleseed is working on a proposal to make information about campaign contributions to judicial candidates more easily-accessible to attorneys and litigants who appear before those judges. It is with interest we noticed that Facebook has asked the Feder...
May 13, 2011
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