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Angela A. Groves

Associate

Angela Groves is an Associate at Relman, Dane & Colfax. Angela joined the firm in 2018. Her civil rights litigation practice includes cases involving discrimination in housing, education, public accommodations, and policing.

Much of Angela’s work focuses on issues of racial justice. Currently, she is contributing to the challenge of discrimination against Black tourists by the City of Myrtle Beach during Black Bike Week. Angela is also a part of the team representing 57 Gullah-Geechee residents of Sapelo Island, Georgia, in a race and disability discrimination lawsuit.

Prior to joining the firm, Angela served as a law clerk to the Honorable Solomon Oliver, Jr., on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. She interned at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Advancement Project, and the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. Prior to becoming an attorney, Angela was a high school social studies teacher and Teach For America corps member in Miami, Florida.

Angela was a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar at New York University, where she received the Gary E. Moncrieffe Award for most outstanding student in the study of racism and the law, as well as the Vanderbilt Award for outstanding contributions to the law school. Angela served as a Trustee of Princeton University from 2012 to 2016.

Featured Cases

Walsh v. Friendship Village of South County
In this Fair Housing Act lawsuit, a married same-sex couple challenges a Missouri senior living community's refusal to let them reside there as unlawful discrimination on the basis of sex.
NAACP v. City of Myrtle Beach
This lawsuit, brought by the NAACP, challenges the City of Myrtle Beach’s imposition of severe traffic restrictions during Black Bike Week, the only weekend of the year where tourists are predominantly African American, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment and federal civil rights laws.
Hicks v. Ferreyra
This case challenges the alleged unlawful detainment of an on-duty Black Secret Service agent by U.S. Park Police officers in violation of the agent's rights under the Fourth Amendment and Section 1985.
Drayton v. McIntosh County, Georgia
This case against McIntosh County and the State of Georgia alleges that the denial of basic municipal services to one of the last Gullah-Geechee communities on Sapelo Island, Georgia violates plaintiffs' constitutional rights.

In the Media

More plaintiffs added to NAACP Black Bike Week discrimination lawsuit against Myrtle Beach, MBPD
WBTW News 13, 02.14.2019

Education

J.D., New York University School of Law, cum laude

A.B., Princeton University, with Honors

Admissions

New York
Application to D.C. Bar submitted; supervised by members of the D.C. Bar

Clerkships

Hon. Solomon Oliver, Jr., U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio

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