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Lawyers for Civil Rights file complaint against Brookline Public Schools
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Lawyers for Civil Rights file complaint against Brookline Public Schools
“A Black eighth grader … was subjected to racial bullying,” read a press release from the Lawyers for Civil Rights last week. It represented the latest salvo from the crusading pro-bono attorneys who originated the suit desegregating Boston’s public schools a half-century ago.
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The latest push in the recovery of the Edgar Benjamin Healthcare Center? Christmas coming early
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The latest push in the recovery of the Edgar Benjamin Healthcare Center? Christmas coming early
Even as summer temperatures beat down, for the about 70 residents of the Edgar Benjamin Healthcare Center on Mission Hill, Christmas is coming.
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Judge rules in favor of receivership for Benjamin nursing home
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Judge rules in favor of receivership for Benjamin nursing home
A Suffolk County Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday to put the Edgar Benjamin Healthcare Center into receivership after community members took matters into their own hands in an attempt to stop the center’s pending closure.
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Lawyers for Civil Rights takes on national issues
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Lawyers for Civil Rights takes on national issues
In the last five years, Lawyers for Civil Rights has ramped up its capacity to litigate cases, doubling its size as the organization takes on cases of national significance — including its suit against DeSantis and a challenge to the Biden administration’s immigration policies.
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Attorney for migrants sees path to visas
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Attorney for migrants sees path to visas
After news broke last week that a group of 50 Venezuelan migrants arrived unannounced via airplane to Martha’s Vineyard, immigration attorney Julio Henriquez knew he had to do something.
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Civil rights groups hail ‘historic’ ruling on exam schools
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Civil rights groups hail ‘historic’ ruling on exam schools
With white and Asian students over-represented in the city’s three selective-admissions schools, the one-year change was widely seen as a way to broaden the racial and socio-economic diversity in the schools.
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