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The Community Health Law Partnership Clinic virtually presented "An Update for Advocates and Communities on COVID-related SNAP and P-EBT Benefits" that covered changes to the SNAP (food stamps) Program and the P-EBT (school lunch) Program for families with school-aged children as well as how to challenge decisions. The August webinar had over 60 attendees, representing 50 organizations across Georgia.
The Appellate Litigation Clinic, in partnership with 2011 alumnus Benjamin J. "Ben" Osorio, recently won remand for its client before the Board of Immigration Appeals. The case Gutierrez-Flores v. Barr involved an immigration judge applying the Asylum Transit Ban retroactively to a Nicaraguan client thus denying her claim for asylum.
Brumby Distinguished Professor in First Amendment Law Sonja R. West presented "The Majoritarian Press Clause" as part of the Governance Workshop on Transparency and Privacy sponsored by the University of Denver Sturm College of Law's Information Transparency Project during August.
When private companies perform governmental functions and governments own companies, which acts should be attributed to the state? Which should be attributed to the corporation? And whose religious beliefs, speech rights, and moral standing can those entities claim? These are the questions that will be addressed in the Dean Rusk International Law Center conference titled "The Law and Logics of Attribution: Constructing the Identity and Responsibility of States and Firms" to be held on September 11 and 18. Registration is required.