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203 Groups Join Letter Urging President Biden Halt Use and Defense of Asylum Ban Policy, August 2, 2023, Human Rights Watch

Litigation Victory Signals End to California Courts’ Illegal Late Fees that Penalized Poverty for Profit – $550 Million to $1 Billion Erased, By Noah Friedlander, May 2, 2023, The Davis Vanguard

Critics of traffic ticket late fees tout end to discrimination suit, By Natalie Hanson, April 25, 2023, Courthouse News Service

Holiday Fund: Community Legal Services defends tenants in need, November 25, 2022, Palo Alto Online

San Mateo County court agrees to stop charging late fees on fines, PDF, November 15, 2022, Courthouse News

Open Letter to Governor Newsom in Opposition to CARE Court, PDF, August 11, 2022, Human Rights Watch

Biden selects two judicial nominees for Northern District bench, continuing streak of diverse appointments, PDF, By Chase DiFeliciantonio, July 29, 2022, San Francisco Chronicle

President Biden Names Twenty-Fourth Round of Judicial Nominees, PDF, July 29, 2022, The White House Briefing Room

Biden nominates three judges to federal courts in California, PDF, By Summer Lin, July 29, 2022, Los Angeles Times

Judicial Council of California Agrees to Cease Traffic Court Late Fees after Complaint Filed by Social Justice Groups, PDF, By Anna Olsen, June 1, 2022, The Davis Vanguard

San Mateo Courts Pause Late Fees In Response To Suit, By Dave Simpson, May 25, 2022, Law360

East Palo Alto considers diluting controversial tenants’ rights ordinance, PDF, By Marisa Kendall, March 2, 2022, Silicon Valley

To stem the tide of evictions threatening Mountain View residents, the city created an eviction help center. So far, it seems to be working, PDF, By Kate Bradshaw, February 18, 2022, Mountain View Voice

Stanford Law Answers Attorney General’s Call to Address the Covid-19 Housing and Eviction Crisis, PDF, By Stephanie Ashe, February 3, 2022, Stanford Law School

California relief effort works to prevent eviction crisis in Bay Area, PDF, By Luc Alvarez, January 26, 2022, The Stanford Daily

Joint Letter to Biden Administration Expressing Concern Regarding Humanitarian Parole Denials for Afghans, PDF, December 14, 2021, Human Rights Watch

Stanford Law Students, Faculty Help Low-Income Renters Avoid Eviction in Hands-On Legal Aid Clinic, PDF, By Melissa De Witte, December 2, 2021, Stanford News

Mountain View’s latest redevelopment project wins praise for keeping low-income tenants housed, PDF, By Kevin Forestieri, September 29, 2021, Mountain View Voice

Protect families from homelessness; extend eviction moratorium, PDF, By Miriam Yupanqui, May 4, 2021, Cal Matters

Federal Court Blocks Dramatic Immigration Courts Fee Increases, PDF, By India-West Staff Reporter, February 14, 2021

COVID Housing: $47M In Assistance Coming To San Mateo Renters, Landlords, PDF, February 10, 2021, CBS SF Bay Area

Immigration Court Fees set to jump dramatically unless Judge intervenes, By Farida Jhabvala Romero, January 14, 2021, KQED

‘Catalyst Fund’ has helped build or protect about 600 Midpeninsula homes, PDF, By Kate Bradshaw, August 12, 2020, The Almanac

12 People in a 3-bedroom house, then the virus entered the equation, PDF, By Conor Dougherty, August 1, 2020, The New York Times

Q & A: Immigration law expert describes challenges for undocumented students despite recent DACA Supreme Court decision, PDF, By Logan Little, July 31, 2020, The Stanford Daily

Pandemic hits housing affordability where it already hurts, PDF, By Ian Park, July 12, 2020, The Stanford Daily

Coronavirus roundup: San Mateo County extends eviction protections | New health orders to come, PDF, By Ryan Fernandez, June 29, 2020, Silicon Valley Business Journal 

San Mateo County supervisors extend eviction moratoriums to July 28, PDF, By Kate Bradshaw, The Almanac

Service agencies committed to aid undocumented population during pandemic, PDF
By Austin Walsh, April 24, 2020, The Daily Journal

East Palo Alto: Residents face massive debt to landlords amid coronavirus eviction moratorium, PDF
By Aldo Toledo, April 14, 2020, Mercury News

Strongest tenant protections in decades begin Jan. 1, 2020, PDF
By Amy Schur, January 17, 2020, San Francisco Bay View