The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and the League of Women Voters of the United States filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court today, urging the Court to uphold the University of Texas at Austin’s admissions policies, including the university’s reasonable efforts to encourage diversity in its classrooms.

A new in-depth study by the Brennan Center for Justice released Oct. 6, 2009, shows that disturbing numbers of families face foreclosure proceedings without the aid of legal counsel.

On June 25, 2009, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted to lift the "LSC poison pill restriction" - the federal appropriations provision that encumbers up to $490 million in state, local, and charitable private contributions raised by legal services nonprofits that receive federal funding from the nation's Legal Services Corporation (LSC).

Cost-free measure would expand access to legal assistance amid economic crisis.