Updated: 3:30 AM CDT May 28, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS Asian Americans in the U.S. are being attacked at an alarming rate.
Oftentimes, we see the awful attacks through cell phone or surveillance videos and sometimes not much happens after that. That s because sometimes taking any legal action isn’t even an option.
But the crisis is just too staggering for one newly formed group to stand by and do nothing.
Don Liu is a founder and board member of The Alliance for Asian American Justice. He is also Target’s chief legal and risk officer. We’ve seen a dramatic increase certainly the largest increase in the anti-Asian violence in my memory, Liu said.
While a court clerk fought to the last ditch against press access, a box on the counter in Ventura’s state court stood as a symbol of access past and future.
Screenshot of U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee, during an interview with the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.
LOS ANGELES (CN) On the counter in Ventura Superior Court sat the ghost of access past, a white, plastic press box.
It came from the days of old when new cases were filed in paper and the local press was strong. But in 2011, when Courthouse News first challenged the Ventura court clerk on First Amendment grounds, it sat useless on the counter.