Penn State Dickinson Law students help community with free tax preparation
PENN STATE DICKINSON — Dickinson Law students are offering free tax preparation services to people with low and fixed incomes, people who have disabilities or special needs, and senior citizens aged 60 or older.
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WAMC — The Albany County Sheriff’s Office is partnering with Albany Law School on a new strategy to prevent people from returning to jail. Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple says the county jail has between four hundred and five hundred inmates right now – less than half of its max capacity.
Read More about Albany Law partners with area sheriff’s office to reduce recidivismCUNY Law’s Immigrant and Non-Citizen Rights Clinic release a new report on policing and surveilling Latinx communities
CUNY SCHOOL OF LAW — CUNY Law’s Immigrant and Non-Citizen Rights Clinic partnered with the New York Immigration Coalition to release a new report that examines how the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice are using over-broad gang allegations to deport and detain Latinx communities across New York State.
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QUEENS DAILY EAGLE — The CUNY Law Defenders Clinic has made clemency their mission. The clinic currently represents 15 people seeking clemency from the governor, including Stanley Bellamy. Under a 2015 measure, incarcerated New Yorkers are eligible for clemency through reprieves, commutations and pardons issued by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
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COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL — In deciding whether to overturn a ruling against a man who claims an employment offer was rescinded because he is gay, the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is not bound by a nearly 30-year-old appellate decision, according to a brief filed by the Columbia Law School Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic.
Read More about Columbia Law’s Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic files brief in discrimination case based on sexual orientationColumbia Law students use spring break to provide free legal services to underserved populations
COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL — More than 100 Columbia Law students participated in the Spring Break Pro Bono Caravans program. Working full-time with 23 public interest organizations and public defenders’ offices, they used the spring break to provide free legal services to underserved populations and understaffed organizations.
Read More about Columbia Law students use spring break to provide free legal services to underserved populationsCleveland-Marshall Law students fight to protect domestic violence victims from local nuisance laws
CLEVELAND PLAIN-DEALER — Three Cleveland-Marshall Law students–Vanessa Hemminger, left, Marissa Pappas and Calla Bonanno–testified before the Euclid City Council committee in an effort to protect domestic violence victims from nuisance laws in Cuyahoga County. The student project was part of a law and public policy course taught by Cleveland-Marshall Law Professor Joseph Mead.
Read More about Cleveland-Marshall Law students fight to protect domestic violence victims from local nuisance lawsCleveland-Marshall Law Professor discusses bail reform task report with Cuyahoga County’s Criminal Justice Council
CLEVELAND PLAIN-DEALER — Pretrial Justice Institute released a report that detailed unacceptable levels of pretrial detention in Cuyahoga County. Cleveland-Marshall Law Professor Jonathan Witmer-Rich, one of the authors of the bail task force report, discussed some of the findings of the institute report with the Cuyahoga County’s Criminal Justice Council.
Read More about Cleveland-Marshall Law Professor discusses bail reform task report with Cuyahoga County’s Criminal Justice CouncilCleveland-Marshall Law Professor Joseph Mead discusses students’ campaigns in changing local ordinances
URBAN AFFAIRS FORUM — Cleveland-Marshall Law Professor Joseph Mead discusses his graduate public policy course and the successes of former students who created campaigns that changed several local ordinances in the Cleveland metropolitan area.
Read More about Cleveland-Marshall Law Professor Joseph Mead discusses students’ campaigns in changing local ordinancesCapital Law student helps people rebuild their lives after incarceration with support of Moyer Fellowship
CAPITAL UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL — Capital Law student Elizabeth Williams ’19 took her passion for public service to the next level, creating resources to help people rebuild their lives after incarceration. She did this with the support of the Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer Fellowship and the mentorship of a committed Capital alum, Mindy Yocum,…
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