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  • Rights groups ask court to join prisoner-redistricting suit

    5/27/11
    Source: 
    Thomson Reuters

    NEW YORK, May 27 (Reuters) - Three civil-rights organizations have requested permission to join as defendants in a lawsuit brought by state senators and citizens who wish to block a law changing the way New York's prisoners are counted for census purposes.

  • Civil Rights Groups Call for Retroactive Application of Guidelines for Cocaine Sentencing

    5/25/11
    Source: 
    civilrights.org

    A group of seven prominent national civil rights organizations that includes The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights sent a letter to the U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder urging him to support the retroactive application of a new set of sentencing guidelines that accompany the implementation of the Fair Sentencing Act (FSA), which reduced the discriminatory sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and powder cocaine offenses.

  • Court ruling victory for African American firefighters

    5/25/11
    Source: 
    People's World

    CHICAGO - It was a long time in coming and a major blow against discrimination in hiring practices here. The 7th US Court of Appeals ordered the Chicago Fire Department (CFD) to hire 111 African Americans who had passed a qualifying exam to become fire fighters in 1995, but then weren't considered after the qualifying criteria was changed.

  • Civil Rights groups want in on prison gerrymandering suit

    5/18/11
    Source: 
    Capitol Confidential

    The State of New York filed a very perfunctory rebuttal to the Senate GOP’s legal challenge to “prison gerrymandering,” and now a group of outside organizations — including the NAACP, Common Cause and VOCAL-NY — wants to intervene on the state’s behalf.

    From a court filing yesterday:

  • LDF Reflects: 57 Years After Brown

    5/17/11
    Source: 
    LDF

    Today marks the fifty-seventh anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v.