Today, CREEC; the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; Covington & Burling LLP; and the ACLU of Maryland filed a complaint with the United States Department of Transportation on behalf of the Baltimore City Chapter of the NAACP, Baltimore Regional…
Complaint Filed: California’s Medi-Cal Program Violates Latin@ Civil Rights
CREEC’s Bill Lee, along with attorneys from the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the National Health Law Program, and Feinberg, Jackson, Worthman and Wasow LLP, filed a complaint against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on…
CREEC mourns the passing of Bruce Sattler
CREEC joins the ACLU of Colorado in mourning the passing of longtime civil liberties advocate Bruce Sattler. Bruce was Tim and my first opposing counsel when we started Fox & Robertson in 1996. He was smart, professional, and just a…
Outdoor Exercise Settlement Article in Westword!
This morning, Westword’s Alan Prendergast published an article about the settlement that the University of Denver’s Civil Rights Clinic and CREEC reached with the Colorado Department of Corrections last week. The online article focuses on the history of Colorado State Penitentiary, and how,…
Alan Chen Joins CREEC Board
We are very excited to welcome Prof. Alan Chen as a new member of CREEC’s board of directors. Our newest board member is a distinguished professor of law and a nationally-recognized expert in constitutional law and civil rights litigation. Alan…
University of Denver Civil Rights Clinic and CREEC Reach Groundbreaking Settlement with Department of Corrections
Prisoners in restrictive housing and close custody at the Colorado State Penitentiary (CSP) have reached a settlement with Colorado prison officials that will provide outdoor exercise for those inmates for the first time since the prison’s construction in 1993. The…
Lambda Legal and CREEC Urge Delta Airlines to Amend Pension Plan to Grant Benefits to Surviving Same-Sex Spouses
“It is time for Delta and other major employers—many of whom are allies to the LGBT community—to update their boilerplate policies and remove this hurdle that affects same-sex couples who were barred from marriage for so long.” Lambda Legal and…
Big CREEC News: Bill Lann Lee and Julie Wilensky open CREEC’s California Office
We are very excited to announce that we are opening a CALIFORNIA OFFICE and that we will by joined by the amazing and talented Bill Lann Lee and Julie Wilensky. Bill was the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights from 1997–2001…
Baca v. Parkview Resolved!
George Baca and Parkview Medical Center have reached a settlement in Mr. Baca’s lawsuit under the Americans with Disabilities Act currently pending in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado addressing Parkview’s provision of effective communication to…
25 Years After ADA Passes, Thousands of Seattle Curbs Still Inaccessible
A class action lawsuit filed today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington alleges that the City of Seattle has failed to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Rehabilitation Act and state law, which…