For the second time in a month, students from the Civil Rights Clinic argued in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. Alice Chang ’25 and Dominique Kato ’25 appeared before a panel of judges on April 1. The panel comprised Andrew Hurwitz, Lucy Koh and Anthony Johnstone.
Judge Esmeralda Zendejas ’06 is the first graduate of the King Hall Outreach Program (KHOP) known to have become a judge. After being appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom in February 2023, she serves on the bench of the San Joaquin Superior Court in Stockton, California. In 2024, she administered the State Oath at King Hall’s annual swearing-in ceremony. Before her appointment, she had most recently served as an attorney at the Department of Industrial Relations since 2022 and as a Deputy Attorney General at the California Attorney General’s Office from 2020 to 2022.
Subjecting incarcerated people to extreme temperatures is “akin to torture,” Professor Carter White told the Washington Post in a July 30 story about a lack of air conditioning or other cooling measures in many state and federal prisons.
On Aug. 15, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a published opinion in Chambers v. Herrera, No. 20-55004. The court held that the Civil Rights Clinic’s client, a former federal prisoner, may continue to pursue his Bivens claim for deprivation of medical care, but that his other claims were no longer viable in light of the recent Supreme Court decision in Egbert v. Boule.
On April 15, Danya Hofnor '21 and Bretton Laudeman '21 argued on behalf of a Civil Rights Clinic client before a Ninth Circuit panel. On April 21, the Ninth Circuit ruled in favor of the clinic's client.
On Nov. 19, Ameil Kenkare '21 argued on behalf of a Civil Rights Clinic client before a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
The Aoki Center for Critical Race and Nation Studies at King Hall, UC Davis Law School, is celebrating the launch of the Aoki Center Tribal Justice Project on Thursday, April 12, at noon in the courtyard of the law school.
The UC Davis School of Law Civil Rights Clinic drew media coverage for its ongoing efforts to force Yuba County to comply with a 1979 federal judge’s order requiring it to improve conditions at the Yuba County Jail.
Students in the UC Davis School of Law Civil Rights Clinic, working under the direction of Supervising Attorney Carter “Cappy” White, succeeded in securing a settlement on behalf of a Shasta County inmate who filed suit after being fed unappealing “food loafs” as punishment for disruptive behavior.
