New Report on Virginia’s School Discipline Crisis

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Inhumane Family Separation Case Settled

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Scott Simpson, scott@muslimadvocates.org Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, simon@justice4all.org Nicole Vogt, nicole@npstrategygroup.com Civil Rights Groups Settle Case Against Trump Administration’s Inhumane Family Separation Policies Settlement Could Give Well Over 1,000 Parents Another Chance at Asylum Washington, DC, September 12, 2018 – In accordance with a new agreement reached today in Dora v. Sessions and […]

Driver’s License Lawsuit Back in District Court

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                               Contact:  Tim Wallace, 434-529-1853, twallace@justice4all.org Plaintiffs are Back to Challenge Virginia DMV’s Unconstitutional System of Suspending Licenses of Low-Income Drivers Who are Unable to Pay Court Debts Commonwealth’s law unfairly traps low-income people in a vicious cycle of debt, unemployment, and incarceration Charlottesville, Va., September 11, 2018 – Today the Legal Aid […]

Lawsuit Challenges Culpeper County Sheriff

For Immediate Release: Contact Legal Aid Justice Center: Sophia Leticia Gregg, sophia@justice4all.org, 703-720-5602 Victor M. Glasberg & Associates, Victor M. Glasberg, vmg@robinhoodesq.com, 703-684-1100, CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT CHALLENGES CULPEPER COUNTY SHERIFF’S YEARS OF VIOLATING IMMIGRANTS’ CIVIL RIGHTS Culpeper, VIRGINIA, September 10, 2018 – A Virginia resident has filed a class-action civil rights lawsuit against Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins for […]

LAJC Corrects ICE Inaccuracies RE: ACRJ

For Immediate Release: August 22, 2018  Contact: Deena N. Sharuk, deena@justice4all.org 434-977-0553 LAJC corrects ICE inaccuracies and joins call for ACRJ to end voluntary ICE notification CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – On Thursday, August 23, at 12:30pm, members of the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail (ACRJ) Board will meet for a work session to discuss the jail’s voluntary policy […]

Suit Filed by Families Separated While Seeking Asylum

For Immediate Release: Contact Legal Aid Justice Center: Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, simon@justice4all.org Muslim Advocates: Scott Simpson, scott@muslimadvocates.org Nicky Vogt, nicole@npstrategygroup.com PARENTS OF CHILDREN FORCIBLY SEPARATED WHILE SEEKING ASYLUM FILE SUIT AGAINST U.S. GOVERNMENT Dora v. Sessions cites extreme trauma at the hands of U.S. immigration authorities Washington, D.C. – Today, on behalf of 29 plaintiffs forcibly […]

VA Understaffs Positions Critical to Student Safety

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contacts Patrick Getlein Senior Vice President The Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis patrick@thecommonwealthinstitute.org 804-396-2051 x103 Rachael Deane Legal Director, JustChildren Program Legal Aid Justice Center rachael@justice4all.org 804-521-7304 Virginia Understaffs Positions Critical to Student Safety While Student Enrollment Grows RICHMOND, VA, August 20, 2018 — Staffing in Virginia’s K-12 schools falls far […]

Habitual Drunkard Case Decided by 4th Circuit

For Immediate Release: Contact Tim Wallace, Director of Development 434-529-1853 twallace@justice4all.org PLAINTIFFS’ STATEMENT ON THE FOURTH CIRCUIT DECISION IN MANNING V. CALDWELL CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA, August 8, 2018 — Today a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision in Manning v. Caldwell, a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Virginia’s “habitual drunkard” […]

Class Action Lawsuit Challenges ICE Detention Policy

For Immediate Release:  Contact: CAIR Coalition: Sheena Pegarido, media@caircoalition.org, 202-559-4431 LAJC: Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, simon@justice4all.org, 703-720-5605 Muslim Advocates: Scott Simpson, scott@muslimadvocates.org, 202-735-1984 CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT CHALLENGES ICE’S POLICY OF KEEPING IMMIGRANTS DETAINED AFTER THEY WIN THEIR CASES Immigrants’ rights groups fight policy that keeps immigrants behind bars after they win cases ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA, July 23, 2018 — […]