Civil Rights
Women in the Law Series: Clara Shortridge Foltz and U.C. Hastings Law School
Today we honor Clara Shortridge Foltz, the first woman to attend UC Hastings. Among many other accomplishments, Foltz was also the first woman in California to: join the Bar, hold statewide office, and serve as deputy district attorney.
U.C. Hastings had originally NOT admitted Clara Shortridge Foltz because the directors
Constitutional Cases for Justice Warriors (November 8, 2022)
In February, the state released the results of an audit revealing that 185 people had died in San Diego County’s jails from 2006 through 2020, raising “concerns about underlying systemic issues with the Sheriff’s Department’s policies and practices.”
This year alone, at least twenty people
Ninth Circuit Decision Weighs Police Intrusion Known as ‘Chalking Tires’
Last month the Ninth Circuit published a decision on the constitutional implications of what may be perceived by some as a small, annoying police intrusion – chalking the tires of parked cars. The Ninth Circuit’s holding in Verdun creates a Circuit Split over the issue and includes some
