The Texas Employment Lawyer's Association has issued the following statement regarding this remarkable moment in history:

June 8, 2020
To Whom it May Concern:
The Texas Employment Lawyers Association is a voluntary association of lawyers
who protect the rights of workers throughout the State of Texas. We stand with
people who oppose prejudice and discrimination against black people. We stand
with people who opposed discrimination against black people decades ago and
those opposing it today.
We need system-wide change. Piecemeal prosecution of individual instances of
race-based discrimination — in policing, housing, schools, voting, public accommodations,
and employment — can bring change. But we see laws designed decades
ago to guarantee equality being diluted. We see black people denied the right
to have their cases of discrimination heard in their own communities by a jury of
their peers.
We need system-wide change. Here are changes we support:
We can eliminate the judge-created doctrine of qualified immunity. Government
officials hide from liability for retaliating against those who speak out about discrimination
against black people. Learn more here: https://lpgeorgia.com/endqualifiedimmunity/
We can eliminate “summary” judgment in race discrimination cases — the procedural
device by which companies and governments hide discrimination by having
judges, rather than a jury of people from our communities, decide what constitutes
race discrimination. Learn more here: Suja A. Thomas, Why Summary Judgment
Is Unconstitutional, 93 VA. L. REV. 139 (2007)
We need system-wide change. Black Lives Matter.
Sincerely,
David L. Wiley
President, Texas Employment Lawyers Association
A copy of this statement may be downloaded here.