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Bill Quigley

BlackCommentator.com Columnist, Bill Quigley, is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola University, New Orleans. He has been an active public interest lawyer since 1977 and has served as counsel with a wide range of public interest organizations on issues including Katrina social justice issues, public housing, voting rights, death penalty, living wage, civil liberties, educational reform, constitutional rights and civil disobedience. He has litigated numerous cases with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., the Advancement Project, and with the ACLU of Louisiana, for which he served as General Counsel for over 15 years. Bill is also legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and a long time human rights advocate. He volunteers with the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti and the Bureaux des Advocats in Port au Prince. Click here to contact Mr. Quigley.

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Think Piece: Ten Months After Katrina – Gutting New Orleans

By Bill Quigley Columnist

Saturday I joined some volunteers and helped gut the home of one of my best friends. Two months after she finished paying off her mortgage, her one-story brick home was engulfed in 7 feet of water. Because she was underinsured and remains worried about a repeat of the floods, my friend, a grandmother, has not…

Saturday I joined some volunteers and helped gut the home of one of my best friends. Two months after she finished paying off her mortgage, her…

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Haitian Police Open Fire on Nonviolent March for Democracy

By Bill Quigley Columnist

Bill Quigley, a professor at Loyola University New Orleans School of Law, is in Haiti on a visit as a volunteer attorney with the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti. Port-au-Prince, February 28 – One year ago today, the elected government of Haiti, led by President Jean Bertrand Aristide, was forced out of office…

Bill Quigley, a professor at Loyola University New Orleans School of Law, is in Haiti on a visit as a volunteer attorney with the Institute for…

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