Ralph Boyd is Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights. According to whitehouse.gov: Most recently, Ralph Boyd was a partner with the law firm of Goodwin Proctor in Boston, Massachusetts. Previously, he was Assistant U.S. Attorney for...
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Ralph Boyd is Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights. According to whitehouse.gov: Most recently, Ralph Boyd was a partner with the law firm of Goodwin Proctor in Boston, Massachusetts. Previously, he was Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997. While serving as a federal prosecutor, he received the U.S. Attorney General's Special Achievement Award for Meritorious Acts and Service on Behalf of the Department of Justice. He is a graduate of Haverford College and received his J.D. from Harvard University.
North Carolina's community college system can now decide whether to admit illegal immigrants for degree programs. The state Department of Justice said in a letter released Friday that federal officials said states “must decide for themselves whether or not to admit illegal immigrants into their...
The Justice Department confirmed Monday that the former track star Marion Jones was among hundreds of convicted felons who have applied for presidential pardons or sentence commutations. Jones has asked President Bush to commute her six-month prison sentence for lying to federal agents about her...
COLUMBIA — A South Carolina trooper caught on tape using his patrol car to ram a fleeing suspect will stand trial this fall on federal civil rights charges. Chief U.S. District Judge David Norton tentatively set trial to start Sept. 29 in Greenville for suspended trooper Steven C. Garren, who was...
A South Carolina trooper caught on tape using his patrol car to ram a fleeing suspect will stand trial this fall on federal civil rights charges. Steven C. Garren was suspended from the Highway Patrol last month after he was charged with depriving a man of his right to be free from the use of...
NEW ORLEANS -- Not enough is being done to welcome black youth and hip hop culture into the modern civil rights movement, the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference...
A former Florida State Prison correctional officer has been indicted by a federal grand jury on civil rights charges for allegedly pouring hot water on an inmate in 2005.
A federal grand jury in Jacksonville, Fla., indicted a former Florida State Prison correctional officer on federal civil rights charges related to an August 2005 assault on an inmate, the Justice Department announced today. Paul Tillis was charged with violating the civil rights of the inmate by...
CEDAR RAPIDS and#8212; One week after ousting Kenneth White, Cedar Rapids Civil Rights Commission members on Wednesday charged a committee with finding a new director in two to three months.Commission members Nancylee Ziese, Janet Johnson and Momodu Kamara volunteered to staff the search...
Defendant William Bowen, 25, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to conspiring to violate the civil rights of an African-American couple and their white friend by spray-painting racial threats and epithets on the home where the three victims lived in Collinsville, Ill., announced Grace...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) must stop its stonewalling tactics and produce documents related to the U.S. government?s ghost detention, torture, and extraordinary rendition program, three prominent human rights groups urged today, just after collectively filing a motion to require the DOJ to...
YONKERS - A federal civil rights lawsuit has been filed against the city and police, alleging that a warrantless search was made of a Nodine Hill apartment.
The Department of Justice gets involved after a local town denies a woman’s request to take in two mentally challenged adults. Shirley Wimbish asked Gretna town council for a special use permit to house the two, with her family, at a home on Washington Street.
The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs (OJP) today announced a new performance standard for body armor at the National Institute of Justice's (NIJ) annual conference in Arlington, Virginia.
RESTON, Va.----MAXIMUS , was awarded a contract to assist the U.S. Department of Justice in the management of its Asset Forfeiture Program. The contract term is six and one-half years, including six one-year options.