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  • Shelby County will be at forefront of challenge to Voting Rights Act

    1/30/11
    Source: 
    The Birmingham News

    For black residents and their lawyers, diluting the strength of any one black voter is problematic.

    "If there has been a discriminatory voting change, it is not absolved because there have been ten or one hundred non-discriminatory changes; the act of discrimination is still odious," wrote lawyers for the defendants who intervened in the case, including the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

  • New York Times Editorial: One Nation, Indivisible

    1/27/11
    Source: 
    The New York Times

    Fifteen years ago, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit flouted Supreme Court law when it struck down affirmative action at the University of Texas Law School. Last week, in an act of redemption, the appellate court upheld an admissions plan for undergraduates at the University of Texas at Austin that takes race into account to encourage diversity. The plan was adopted after the Supreme Court again approved affirmative action in higher education in 2003. 

  • LDF Successfully Defends Race-Conscious Admissions in Higher Education

    1/18/11
    Source: 
    NAACP Legal Defense Fund

          LDF Successfully Defends Race-Conscious Admissions in Higher Education
    Federal Court Upholds UT Austin’s Admissions Plan as a Constitutional Pursuit of Diversity

  • AP: Civil rights group: La. violating voting law

    1/13/11
    Source: 
    The Associated Press

    BATON ROUGE — Louisiana departments aren't complying with a federal law that requires public assistance agencies that serve low-income residents to offer them voter registration, a civil rights group said Wednesday.

    Lawyers representing the Louisiana State Conference of the NAACP sent a complaint letter to Secretary of State Tom Schedler, the Department of Children and Family Services and the Department of Health and Hospitals, asking for corrective action.

  • Louisiana Defaulting on Federal Obligation to Register Low-Income Residents

    1/12/11
    Related Case or Issue: 
    Scott v. Schedler

    Project Vote and NAACP Legal Defense Fund Put Secretary of State Tom Schedler on Notice of Voting Rights Violations