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CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS FILE CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT TO PROTECT INCARCERATED PEOPLE AT THE DEADLIEST FEDERAL PRISON

In response to intensifying COVID-19 outbreaks at the federal prison complex in Butner, North Carolina, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of North Carolina, Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, and Winston & Strawn filed a class-action lawsuit today seeking

Alamance County, N.C. Town Must Immediately Allow Protester Access to Public Space Near Divisive Confederate Monument

GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Alamance County, N.C. Branch of the NAACP and eight individual plaintiffs in North Carolina claimed victory today after a federal judge for the Middle District of North Carolina granted their motion for a preliminary injunction.