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.
The department is facing a federal examination and the first in what could be a series of lawsuits from lawyers who say they were rejected for elite jobs because of their liberal politics.
Vancouver officials today requested the U.S. Department of Justice investigate potential civil or criminal violations in the firing of a police officer who later sued the city and settled the lawsuit last month for $1.65 million. "This is an issue...
The Department of Justices Office of Justice Programs (OJP) is holding the 2008 National AMBER Alert Conference in Orange County, Calif., between Oct. 14 and 16. The training sessions will provide critical information along several training tracks for an audience comprised of law enforcement...
The judge presiding over the corruption trial of Senator Ted Stevens dealt a sharp blow to the prosecution, saying Justice Department prosecutors used documents that they knew contained lies.
The U.S. Department of Justice has agreed to settle a lawsuit it filed against the former owners of Barrcrest Manor Apartments in East Hempfield Township for allegedly refusing to rent to a visually impaired man who uses a guide dog.Under the terms of the agreement, the former owner, Malvern...
LONG BEACH - Attorneys representing 35 registered sex offenders filed a civil rights lawsuit this week aimed at a strict sex offender ordinance that the City Council passed in March.
"The Express" is a trip down "Glory Road," and these days, that's not exactly the road less traveled. The inspirational sports biography has become a Hollywood staple, and it's a minor miracle that sports movies with a civil rights angle now constitute their own genre.
Associated Press - October 9, 2008 2:54 PM ET CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - A former director of the Cedar Rapids Civil Rights Commission has filed a complaint claiming his civil rights were...
CEDAR RAPIDS and#8212; Kenneth White has filed a complaint against the Cedar Rapids Civil Rights Commission claiming the board violated his civil rights when it fired him last July.White argued the board denied him due process and that it passed down no specific reason for firing him, but threw...
Polling places in six battleground states could be overwhelmed on Election Day because officials have not allocated enough voting stations, machines and poll workers, a study by a civil rights group warns.
Internal documents show the US military exported the "brutal interrogation techniques" from Guantanamo prison and applied them to three terror suspects in US jails, civil rights groups said Wednesday.