NAACP Legal Defense Fund : Defend, Educate, Empower

Monique Lin-Luse on Stout v. Jefferson County: Integrated education a Constitutional right

The trial is underway to determine whether Gardendale City Schools can separate from Jefferson County Schools and form its own school system.

"The plaintiffs … which are black students and their parents in Jefferson County ... want to ensure that Jefferson County is able to do what it needs to do to provide their Constitutional right to an integrated education," said Monique Lin-Luse, an attorney representing the plaintiffs in Stout v. Jefferson County BOE case.

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Urges Fifth Circuit to Ensure Education Equality in Louisiana Charter School Desegregation Case

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), joined by co-counsel Gideon Carter of Baton Rouge, LA, filed a brief asking the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to reverse a July decision granting a Louisiana charter school’s motion to operate a virtually one-race school in the St. James Parish School District, which already contains three racially segregated elementary schools.