Education Civil Rights Alliance Amicus Brief in Support of Race-Conscious Admissions

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP and the Education Civil Rights Alliance (ECRA) have filed a friend-of-court brief on behalf of youth advocates and experts in educational access. This brief contributes to the records of two cases currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court: Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard

2022-08-15T22:50:48+00:00August 15th, 2022|Amicus, Public Good|

The Education Civil Rights Alliance and Lieff Cabraser File Supreme Court Amicus Brief Supporting Race-Conscious Admissions To Ensure Robust Talent Competition in Harvard and UNC Cases

Prominent plaintiffs’ law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP and the Education Civil Rights Alliance (ECRA) filed a friend-of-court brief today on behalf of youth advocates and experts in educational access. This brief contributes to the records of two cases currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court: Students for Fair

2022-08-15T22:47:22+00:00August 1st, 2022|Amicus, Public Good|

New York Court Rules in Favor of Employee Whistleblowers Improperly Terminated During Coronavirus Pandemic

On March 28, 2022, Judge Gregory Woods of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order ruling in favor of employee whistleblowers who were improperly terminated for various reasons — including having sought to prevent their employer from forcing employees to work from the office at

2022-03-29T23:21:45+00:00March 29th, 2022|Amicus, Firm News|

North Carolina Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Criminal Defendants Seeking Post-Conviction DNA Innocence Testing

Watershed criminal justice result based in part on pro bono amicus work by Lieff Cabraser attorney Evan Ballan On March 11, 2022, the North Carolina Supreme Court issued an order creating a critical new criminal justice standard, permitting criminal defendants to seek post-conviction DNA innocence testing even if they had pled

2022-09-14T21:22:53+00:00March 15th, 2022|Amicus, Firm News|

Lieff Cabraser Assists Scholars, Social Scientists, in Amicus Brief Seeking Simple Dignity for Transgender Elderly in California

It seems a fairly simple and straightforward thing that staff at nursing homes should call transgender residents by their correct names/pronouns. This simple human courtesy was undermined by a recent 3rd Appellate District order striking down a California law requiring such accurate and respectful address of elders.

2021-09-02T23:59:38+00:00September 2nd, 2021|Amicus, Public Good|

Lieff Cabraser and The Equal Justice Society File Amicus Brief on Behalf of Civil Rights Groups and Scholars in Support of Hospital Worker’s Race Bias Suit

As reported by Law360 (subscription), on March 18, 2021, Lieff Cabraser and The Equal Justice Society filed an amicus brief in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of a coalition of civil rights groups, law school professors and other scholars in support of a Black former hospital worker’s race bias suit. In the

2021-05-10T23:13:56+00:00March 19th, 2021|Amicus, Public Good|

Lieff Cabraser Files Brief as Counsel for Amici Curiae in Support of Plaintiff Investors in Securities Class Action Against Goldman Sachs

On March 3, 2021, Lieff Cabraser and Schnapper-Casteras PLLC filed an amicus brief in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of two former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairs, four former SEC Commissioners, and numerous other former SEC officials, all voicing support of a class of investors fighting to remain certified in a

2021-05-10T23:21:41+00:00March 5th, 2021|Amicus, Securities Fraud|

Massachusetts Supreme Court Rules Uber’s “Frictionless” Imposition of Contract Terms Abridges Consumer Rights

The opinion is expected to have far-ranging effects in what was a previously insufficiently-explored area of contract formation and consumer rights in the new high-tech era On January 4, 2021, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued an opinion in the high-profile Massachusetts Uber consumer contracts case about how contracts get formed

2022-05-03T23:27:07+00:00January 6th, 2021|Amicus, Consumer Fraud|

Lieff Cabraser Files Amicus Brief Defending California’s Pro-Consumer Pay-for-Delay Law on Behalf of American Antitrust Institute and Other Organizations

On October 15, 2020, Lieff Cabraser filed an amicus brief on behalf of the American Antitrust Institute (AAI), Consumer Reports, and Public Citizen in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California opposing a generic pharmaceutical association’s efforts to defeat pro-consumer anti-pay-for-delay legislation. A legal tactic used by branded drug manufacturers to stifle

2020-10-16T16:25:59+00:00October 16th, 2020|Amicus, Antitrust|

Plaintiffs Win Summary Judgment in Favor of Public School Students in Department of Education CARES Act Fund Misallocation Lawsuit

On September 4, 2020, United States District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich issued an Order granting summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed on behalf of public school students from California, Georgia, Texas, and Virginia challenging an unlawful restriction imposed by US Department of Education and Secretary Betsy DeVos

2022-09-22T20:52:11+00:00September 4th, 2020|Amicus, Public Good|

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