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The children were detained from the hotel and transferred to the Office of Refugee Resettlement shelters after the ACLU and TCRP filed a lawsuit against the federal government. "Karla Vargus, a Texas Civil Rights Project lawyer, represented a 13-year-old girl who was detained in a hotel and later expelled to El Salvador." [14] [15]
Also Tuesday, civil rights groups and Texas' largest border county filed a lawsuit, calling the measure that Republican Gov. Greg Abbott had signed into law less than 24 hours earlier an ...
Daniel Hatoum, a Texas Civil Rights Project attorney whose experience includes defending children subject to the work of immigration contractors, said a criminal lawsuit could come later.
Critics have said the new Texas law is unconstitutional and civil rights groups filed a lawsuit against the state on Tuesday. The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Texas, and the Texas ...
It began as a civil action, a handwritten petition filed against the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC) in 1972 by inmate David Resendez Ruíz alleging that the conditions of his incarceration, such as overcrowding, lack of access to health care, and abusive security practices, were a violation of his constitutional rights. [1]
Those cases represent 0.0000388% of the total votes cast. ... The case against Mason also lacks evidence, according to Christina Beeler, an attorney for the Texas Civil Rights Project.
Plaintiffs Abigail Noel Fisher and Rachel Multer Michalewicz applied to the University of Texas at Austin in 2008 and were denied admission. The two women, both white, filed suit, alleging that the University had discriminated against them on the basis of their race in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. [5]
Texas Civil Rights Attorney Kevin Green of Austin and the family held a press conference Feb. 22 in front of Brownwood City Hall calling attention to the lawsuit filed against Brown County, the ...