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  • LDF Files Friend of the Court Brief in Supreme Court Healthcare Case

    1/13/12
    Source: 
    LDF

    Today, LDF filed a “friend of the court” brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case, Department of Health & Human Services v. Florida.  The brief urges the Court to uphold the minimum coverage provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the landmark health care legislation passed by Congress in 2010, which has been challenged on constitutional grounds.  

  • Fayette school board settles voting lawsuit with NAACP

    1/10/12
    Source: 
    The Atlanta Journal Constitution

    The Fayette County Board of Education has agreed to settle its part of an NAACP lawsuit challenging the county's voting process that the civil right group says has kept blacks from serving on the school board and county commission.

  • Maryland’s Highest Court Unanimously Upholds Right to Counsel at Initial Bail Hearings

    1/09/12
    Source: 
    NAACP Legal Defense Fund

    On January 4, 2012, Maryland’s highest court issued a unanimous ruling in Richmond v. District Court of Maryland that guarantees the right of indigent defendants to have a lawyer present at their initial bail hearing.  At this hearing which occurs shortly after an individual is arrested and detained, a District Court Commissioner determines whether there was probable cause for the arrest and, if so, whether the individual should be released pending trial and under what conditions. 

  • Holder Is Right About Carolina Voting Law

    1/05/12
    Source: 
    Wall Street Journal

    LDF, the National Urban League and the NAACP respond to a Wall Street Journal editorial criticizing the Justice Department challenge of South Carolina's new voter ID law.

  • NYT: Robert L. Carter, an Architect of School Desegregation, Dies at 94

    1/04/12
    Source: 
    The New York Times

    Robert L. Carter, a former federal judge in New York who, as a lawyer, was a leading strategist and a persuasive voice in the legal assault on racial segregation in 20th-century America, died on Tuesday morning in Manhattan. He was 94.

    The cause was complications of a stroke, said his son John W. Carter, a justice of the New York Supreme Court in the Bronx.