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All about the Justice Bus n California State Bar Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame, 2001
Narek Avetisyan and Shoeb Mohammed are both May 2016 Juris Doctor candidates at Pacific McGeorge. They can be contacted at n_avetisyan@u.pacific.edu and s_mohammed@u.pacific.edu respectively.
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bama, 1965. A young white couple found themselves in an African American nightclub, dancing to the music and enjoying their drinks. That evening, they celebrated 20th century Alabama’s first criminal convictions for a violation of a federal civil rights law. It was also their first date. “We had our first date in Alabama,” Brian Landsberg MAGAZINE said, “I met my wife at the Civil Rights Division.” Landsberg’s
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Brian Landsberg seated in his office at Pacific McGeorge School of Law with the DOJ Justice Bus resting on his desk
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work in civil rights began fresh out of law school, when he was hired as a new lawyer for the Department of Justice. “I got my offer in ‘63 and I accepted it.” But after accepting his offer, he never received word back from the DOJ. After enough time without a clear answer, Landsberg boarded a plane and flew to Washington, D.C. “The best way to get straight answers is to be there, which is actually very163px consistent with Ad the way the Civil -163px Rights Division operated,” Landsberg said. It turned out that the reason no one had responded to his inquiries was because Congress had not passed the budget. But the Budget Act of 1963 did create two new positions for the Civil Rights Division, and one of those belonged to Landsberg. Landsberg’s first assignment sent him to the deep South. His mission was to enforce voter rights in Alabama, where George Wallace recently had been elected Governor on a platform that boasted, “Segregation Now! Segregation Tomorrow! Segregation Forever!” “We were driving rental cars, we had haircuts, we were wearing suits and ties, even on the hottest days,” Landsberg said. Everyone 916-874-6011 knew that the Department of Justice was in | www.saclaw.org town. However, many locals saw them as naive outsiders
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