Andrea Brenneke Jay S. Brown Katherine C. Chamberlain Mel L. Crawford Timothy K. Ford Katrin E. Frank Kenneth A. MacDonald Joseph R. Shaeffer David J. Whedbee Jesse Wing

MacDonald Hoague & Bayless has been active in civil rights litigation for more than 50 years and we are recognized nationally for our work in this field. We represented college professors in loyalty oath cases in the fifties, civil rights workers and conscientious objectors in the sixties, delegates seeking equal votes in presidential nominating conventions in the seventies, female athletes seeking equal opportunity in college sports programs in the eighties and women prisoners challenging body searches by male guards in the nineties. Our lawyers have represented victims of police misconduct, inmates on death row, Central American refugees and prisoners challenging unconstitutional prison practices and conditions.

Our civil rights practice includes:

• employment

• police misconduct and abuse

• prosecutorial misconduct

• first amendment, free speech and freedom of religion

• prisoner rights

• fair housing