Peter Schey, longtime Los Angeles champion of immigrant rights, dies at 77
by Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times
Apr 03, 2024
3 minutes
WASHINGTON — Peter Schey, who championed the rights of immigrants over decades as a Los Angeles attorney and led the case that overturned Proposition 187, the controversial initiative to deny government services to undocumented immigrants, died of complications from lymphoma Tuesday at age 77.
Schey, the founder and executive director of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, led class-action cases on behalf of immigrants involving access to public education, medical care and the welfare of unaccompanied minors.
Born in South Africa to parents who fled Germany — his father was a Jewish anti-Nazi agitator — Schey moved
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