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The Legal Times: Voting Rights Lawyers Gird for Election
10/14/10Source:The BLT: Blog of the Legal TimesTwo years ago, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed suit in Indiana and stopped what it said was a threat to disenfranchise homeowners facing foreclosure. Now, after countless more foreclosures, an NAACP lawyer says it's ready to litigate again if needed.
At issue in the 2008 lawsuit was whether a list of homeowners facing foreclosure could be used to challenge their eligibility to vote. A local Republican Party official had been quoted saying that presence on such a list “would be a solid basis” to ask someone to cast a provisional ballot.
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The Times-Picayune: Road Home could be smoothed by court rulings
10/10/10Source:The Times-PicayuneBecause Mark and Romy Samuels had jobs and insurance on their Gentilly home that was totaled by Hurricane Katrina’s flooding, they got nothing from the Road Home.
They made too much money to get a low-income grant. Insurance covered the equity they had in the house, but not the larger costs estimated by the Road Home itself of rebuilding it. After fighting the program’s appraisals and watching as friends in areas that didn’t even flood got big grants, the parents of three small children had no choice but to sell their house.
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Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Leaves Discriminatory Disfranchisement Law in Place
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30 Issues: Education
10/01/10Source:The Brian Lehrer ShowJennifer Cohen, policy analyst with the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation, and Damon Hewitt, director of the Education Practice Group at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) talk about partisanship and the Obama administration's education policy.
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LDF on WBAI's "Wake Up Call"
9/30/10Source:WBAI 99.5 FM New YorkListen to LDF's Jin Hee Lee on WBAI's "Wake Up Call" discussing September 28th's City Council Hearing on unlawful tresspass enforcement policies in New York City Housing Authority developments.
Listen here. (Segment begins at 26:45).