Professor Fish, Aoki Center File Brief in Racial Justice Case

On April 15, UC Davis Law’s Aoki Center for Critical Race and Nation Studies joined UCLA’s Center for Immigration Law and Policy and the Southern Poverty Law Center in filing an amicus brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in United States v. Carrillo-Lopez.

As UCLA Law noted in its press release on the amicus brief, the case involves “a racial justice issue of enormous significance.” The centers filed the brief in support of the defendant, Gustavo Carrillo-Lopez, who has argued that the criminal legal re-entry statute is unconstitutional because it was enacted to discriminate against Mexicans based on race.

Professor Eric Fish is co-counsel on the brief. Read the press release; amicus brief and Dean Kevin R. Johnson’s ImmigrationProf Blog post on the brief.