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Gregg A. Kelley
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Virginia Tech Students Fight Lawsuit After Reporting Illegal Wage Theft
Father Unlawfully Detained and Assaulted by Special Police While Trying to Leave Apartment Complex
AU Student Resolves Lawsuit Against American University & Metropolitan Police Department
New Report Shares First-Person Stories from Inside Federal Prisons, Calling On BOP Director Peters to Focus on Rehabilitation Instead of Warehousing, and on Congress to Establish Independent Oversight
Mathews County NAACP Demands Mathews County Board of Supervisors Stop Transfer of Public Confederate Statue and Land to Private Confederate Groups
Jonathan Smith Takes On Newly Created Senior Special Counsel Role at the Washington Lawyers’ Committee
Blind Individuals Seek Equal Access to DC Health’s At-home COVID-19 Testing Program
In Partial Settlement of Civil Rights Suits on Behalf of Demonstrators Attacked at Lafayette Square by Trump Administration, Federal Government Agrees to Change Demonstration Policing Policies
Seaman, et al. v. Commonwealth of Virginia, et al.
Tenants and Tenants Union Sue Meridian Heights Apartments For Unlawful Neglect of the Property
“Dr. King said, ‘the moral arc of the universe bends toward justice.’ But only when people pull it toward justice. The Washington Lawyers’ Committee is doing the pulling, and our city and the nation are better for it.”
Eric Holder, former Attorney General of the United States