Rally at U.S. Customs and Border Protection
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Edgar Aranda-Yanoc edgar@justice4all.org Legal Aid Justice Center will hold a rally demanding justice for Claudia Patricia Gómez González, and the end of the practice of separating children from their parents at the headquarters of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol at 1300 Pennsylvania Ave NEW, at 11am on Wednesday, May 30th. On May […]
Read moreCourt Rules on Suspension of Driver’s Licenses
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Tim Wallace 434-529-1853 twallace@justice4all.org May 23, 2018 – Today a divided panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision in Stinnie v. Holcomb, a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Virginia’s statutes automatically suspending driver’s licenses for failure to pay court costs and fines. In a 2 to 1 decision, […]
Read moreExecutive Director Mary Bauer to Step Down
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tim Wallace, Director of Development 434-529-1853 twallace@justice4all.org LEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER’S MARY BAUER TO STEP DOWN; ORGANIZATION SEEKS NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Charlottesville, Va., April 27, 2018 — Legal Aid Justice Center (LAJC) Executive Director Mary Bauer has announced plans to step down as Executive Director in mid-summer 2018. Bauer became Executive […]
Read moreCourt green-lights lawsuit challenging ICE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Hallie Ryan Managing Attorney, Legal Aid Justice Center 703.226.3426 A federal court has given the green light to a lawsuit challenging ICE’s use of warrantless home invasions and vehicle stops, denying the government’s Motion to Dismiss and allowing the lawsuit to continue into discovery. This is one of the first rulings […]
Read more2018 Legislative Session Wrap Up
The 2018 Virginia legislative regular session came to a close this month on March 10, but reached its conclusion without the General Assembly passing a biennial budget for 2018-2020. The main issue preventing agreement on the budget was whether or not Virginia will opt into federal funding to expand our Medicaid program to cover the […]
Read moreLAJC’s Big Bash
https://www.justice4all.org/lajcs-big-bash-celebrating-50-years/
Read moreCase Establishes Right to Bond Hearings
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Legal Aid Justice Center has won an important first-in-the-nation class action case in federal court in Alexandria, establishing the right to bond hearings for a class of detained immigrants whom the government is holding in long-term no-bond detention. When immigrants are deported to countries where human rights violations are rampant, they often […]
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