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Anti-Discrimination Law Under Fire: When Trans Rights Become Legal Loopholes

Civil rights law is designed to protect everyone equally. Yet in 2025, those protections are being chipped away, especially for transgender Americans. The administration’s strategy …

Map Wars: Texas Cheats, California Counters—Gerrymandering vs. Democracy

The U.S. has always played games with electoral maps, but 2025 has turned gerrymandering into a high-stakes war. At the center are Texas and California—two …

Flag-Burning Ban and Cashless Bail Crackdown: When Free Speech and Fair Justice Go Up in Flames

If there’s one thing scarier than a zombie apocalypse, it’s a president who thinks free speech and fair bail are negotiable. In late August 2025, …

Voting Rights on the Ropes: How the New Admin is Strangling Fair Elections

For decades, voting rights have been the fragile backbone of American democracy. Every expansion of the ballot—from the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to the …

When Justice Withers: DOJ’s Civil Rights Division Staff Exodus and Its Impact on Civil Rights Enforcement

This summer revealed what may be one of the most consequential shifts in modern civil rights enforcement. Since President Trump’s inauguration in January 2025, the …

Voting Rights Alive: SCOTUS Shields Native American Plaintiffs from Redistricting Rollback

In a rare but vital win for voting rights, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision this month that upheld a lower court’s ruling …

Good Trouble Lives On: Civil Rights Protest Honors John Lewis’ Legacy

On the fourth anniversary of Congressman John Lewis’s passing, Americans gathered in cities across the country to remember his legacy not with silence, but with …

Trans Rights on the Chopping Block: Federal Civil Rights at Risk

The fight for LGBTQ+ equality reached a dangerous inflection point this summer. In June, the United States Supreme Court allowed Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care …

Independence Day in the Streets: Freedom Protests Sweep the Nation

Across the United States on Independence Day, tens of thousands took to the streets—not to celebrate fireworks—but to demand civil rights and justice. Organized under …

Case Results

Reginald Oliver v. City of Oakland

Oakland Police keep fabricating evidence and lying about minorities to arrest and prosecute them for supposed “gang” crimes, in violation of a settlement that prohibits …

Named plaintiff Reginald Oliver claims the Oakland PD continues violating the Constitution, in defiance of the settlement in Delphine Allen e al. v. City of Oakland, USDC No. C-00-4599 TEH, also known as "The Riders" litigation. Read Full Course

Jane Smith v. City of Oakland

Racial profiling of Asian women by police officer resulting in a class action complaint for damages, declaratory and injunctive relief

Finding evidence about defendant's post-conviction parole violation unfairly prejudicial "since the jury could have construed that parole violation as character evidence in violation of Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b)" Read Full Course

Rodney King v. City of Los Angeles

Rodney King has filed a petition for a writ of mandamus seeking to have Judge John G. Davies disqualified from presiding at the trial of …

Rodney King waited too long to file a malpractice suit against the first of 27 lawyers who represented him in connection with the infamous beating he suffered from Los Angeles police in 1991, this district’s Court of Appeal ruled yesterday. The ruling by Div. Two affirmed Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ann Kough’s grant of summary judgment to Steven Lerman. King earlier this year dismissed his appeal of Kough’s ruling in favor of two other lawyers sued in the case, Federico Sayre and John Burris. Read Full Course

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