Human rights victory in Montana:
By Rebecca K. Smith, CLDC Board President and Cooperating Attorney In a significant defeat for the multinational corporate privatization agenda, this week the town of Missoula, Montana seized its water supply and distribution system from the Carlyle Group via eminent...
Pro-choice victory
By Rebecca K. Smith, CLDC Board President & Cooperating Attorney On May 29, in a case called McCormack v. Herzog, the federal U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit struck down Idaho’s ban on abortions. A federal court in Idaho had previously found the...
Nebraska outlaws the death penalty and joins a growing trend within the U.S.
By Rebecca K. Smith, CLDC Board President & Cooperating Attorney Over 150 death row prisoners have been proven innocent and freed with the help of DNA evidence. Even more disturbing, most of the people that have been sentenced to die are poor African American men...Ireland leads the world
By Rebecca K. Smith, CLDC Board President & Cooperating Attorney Last week in Ireland, for the first time ever, an entire country decided to legalize gay marriage by a popular vote, also known as a referendum. While other nations have legalized gay marriage with...
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