- Practice Areas
- Civil Rights
We strive to protect the constitutional rights of our clients while paying respect to the great civil rights leaders.
Our firm fights for justice, equality, and to help advance the progress of the civil rights movement.
For those whose rights have been violated, the consequences are profound—affecting safety, dignity, and trust in public institutions. Clients facing misconduct, discrimination, or other civil rights abuses need advocates who will listen, understand, and fight to hold powerful entities accountable. This balance of compassion and resolve defines our approach to every case.
The Vora Law Firm has earned a reputation for its involvement in many highly-publicized civil rights cases and appeals.
Nilay U. Vora has focused his civil rights practice on righting the wrongs related to unlawful searches by the FBI, unlawful regulations by the United States Attorney General, the Treasury Department, and related federal agencies, police misconduct and excessive force, prisoners’ rights and prison conditions, disability discrimination, voting rights and elections, and first amendment issues.
The Firm’s civil rights victories have been widely reported in the media. Mr. Vora’s efforts in helping to protect and advance civil rights, he has even been awarded the inaugural Pro Bono award by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.
Nilay Vora is committed to representing victims of police brutality and misconduct.
He has helped victims of police misconduct, police shootings, and police violence uphold their rights under the United States Constitution after experiencing unjustifiable searches and seizures and excessive violence by police officers involving tasers and guns. He has also fought to end the torture of Louisiana death row inmates through confinement in extreme heat – a case that received attention by both the New York Times and National Public Radio. Mr. Vora has proven himself as a fierce defender of the First Amendment of the Constitution by helping to protect the ability of religious institutions to provide places for individuals to have free exercise of religion, as well as a protector of fair election processes in a case involving the rights of local officials to run for elected office.
Jeff Atteberry’s first-chair experience in civil rights jury trials complements the work of Nilay Vora and strengthens The Vora Law Firm’s civil rights practice as a whole. He has tried multiple cases involving Section 183 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, including cases in federal court on behalf of prisoners asserting claims of medical negligence and abuse. Dr. Atteberry’s appellate experience includes writing important amicus briefs in support of civil rights attorneys fighting against the indiscriminate use of solitary confinement in state prisons. Drawing on his background in higher education to organize a coalition of over sixty colleges and universities, he also played an important role in defending civil rights by securing a nationwide injunction blocking changes to the international student visa program.