On May 28, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco ruled in favor of a Civil Rights Clinic client in a case that students Elizabeth Klueck ’13 and Julia Luster ’13 had argued only two weeks before.
A federal court challenge filed by the UC Davis School of Law Civil Rights Clinic figured prominently in an article in the Contra Costa Times on the parole of 74-year-old Frankie Williams.
A collaborative effort between the UC Davis School of Law Immigration Clinic and Civil Rights Clinic won the December 23 release of Herbert Flores-Torres, who had been in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody for nearly three years, allowing the client to enjoy a holiday reunion with family.
The UC Davis Civil Rights Clinic, under the supervision of Professor Carter White, was granted more than $46,000 in attorney's fees for their work on a religious freedom case.
On October 29, 2008, Erin Haney '08 will arguesa case before a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The court is holding a special sitting at University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, and Haney's case is the first on the court's docket.
United States District Judge Ronald M. Whyte ordered payment of $16,145 in attorney's fees for work performed by the UC Davis Civil Rights and Immigration Law Clinics in 2005 and 2006.
