Q&A: Dorchen A. Leidholdt – New York Law Journal (registration)
New York Law Journal (registration)Q&A: Dorchen A. LeidholdtNew York Law Journal (registration)"So often these achievements have started with fierce advocacy for one survivor—and that became the best laboratory for understanding the problem and the best platform for social change," she said in receiving the 2013 Edith I. Spivack Award from the …
Film Review: The Present-Day Consciousness of ‘Selma’ (Firedoglake)
A present-day social consciousness flows throughout this chronicle of the period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Led a nonviolent campaign in Selma, Alabama, to secure the right to vote for blacks. And, although King may be the focus, the story does not deify King but shows that the small acts of hundreds […]
DSS Director Peggy Eagan stabilizes once-troubled agency
It was a deeply troubled agency before she moved into her corner office in June 2013. The work is critical: DSS oversees such federal programs as dispensing food stamps and Medicaid benefits, providing services for seniors and adults, and protecting and caring for children.
Johnson v. Department of Justice (People) – The Recorder
Johnson v. Department of Justice (People)The RecorderHofsheier interpreted the federal and state equal protection clauses as invalidating mandatory sex offender registration for a 22-year-old defendant convicted of nonforcible oral copulation with a person 16 years of age (§ 288a, subd. (b)(1)) ….. In …and more »