Mark Rosenbaum

director of Public Counsel Opportunity Under Law

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Director of Public Counsel Opportunity under Law, which seeks to eliminate economic injustice; former chief counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California

Mark Rosenbaum on KCRW

Under a 12-year-old court settlement, police can’t arrest people for sleeping on the streets. That could come to an end. Lawyer Ted Olsen, who successfully argued Bush v.

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Students in some Detroit schools say they’re being cheated out of an education. Are they being deprived of a right guaranteed by the Constitution?

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Students have filed a lawsuit against Compton school district for neglecting to offer special needs education to those who’ve undergone trauma.

Compton Students Sue School District

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