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The Chicago Public Housing Authority are testing a new program which limits housing vouchers to eight years.

HSPRD attorney Joshua Karsh appeared on Chicago Progressive Talk to discuss sex discrimination in the Chicago Fire Department.

HSPRD attorney Joshua Karsh appeared on WGN Plus to discuss sex discrimination in the Chicago Fire Department.

On October 31, 2016, HSPRD Partner Deane Brown served as a panelist for a continuing legal education program at the Chicago Bar Association entitled, The Equal Rights Amendment.

On October 28, 2016, HSPRD’s Joshua Karsh and Caryn Lederer, and Marni Willenson of Willenson Law, LLC, filed a lawsuit on behalf of 12 female paramedics who were denied employment with the Chicago Fire Department, charging the City with sex discrimination.

A newly filed lawsuit against Cook County judges alleges that thousands of impoverished arrestees are being illegally detained in Cook County jail due solely to their inability to pay their monetary bonds, and that the illegal practices complained of disparately impact African Americans.