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Latest News in Access to Justice

• April 18, 2025

  NC Can't Appeal Bias Ruling In Death Row Case, Justices Told

  A Black man who won a seminal case proving racial bias tainted the jury selection process in his capital murder trial is fighting prosecutors' efforts to undo the ruling, telling North Carolina's highest court the state has no statutory right to appeal.

• April 16, 2025

  Conn. Town Wants Murder Exoneree's $5.7M Jury Win Tossed

  A Connecticut town has asked a federal judge to either toss or zero out an exonerated murder defendant's $5.7 million jury trial win, saying one of its police officers did not, as a matter of law, assist a state police officer in fabricating a jailhouse informant's testimony.

• April 16, 2025

  Coalition Offers Free Legal Aid To Fired Federal Workers

  A coalition of organizations, including unions like the AFL-CIO and nonprofits like the nonpartisan legal volunteering network We the Action, has teamed up to connect the thousands of federal employees fired under the Trump Administration with free legal support, calling on lawyers across the U.S. to join their efforts.

• April 16, 2025

  Calif. Agency Says Appraisal Co. Discriminated Against Family

  The California Civil Rights Department announced it has reached settlements with a Nevada-based appraisal management company and an individual appraiser that allegedly lowballed a Black and Latino family in the Bay Area because of their race.

• April 16, 2025

  Cops, Sheriffs, Town Want Forced Catheter Suit Tossed

  Current and former officials in Hollis and Harmon County, Oklahoma, are urging a federal court to throw out a suit from a man who alleges he was forcibly catheterized without his consent following a traffic incident in violation of his civil rights.

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