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Fight for Justice Continues for NYC Public School Custodians
5/06/11
Appellate Court mandates further scrutiny of discrimination remedies for African-American and Hispanic school custodians in New York -
Redistricting: How do you count state prisoners?
5/05/11Source:Capitol WeeklyCalifornia’s 80th Assembly District has another claim to fame besides being vast and largely empty: One out of every 11 people in it is a prison inmate who didn’t choose to be there.
If Assemblyman Mike Davis gets his way, in a decade, the 80th AD would get even more vast empty land — because those prisoners wouldn’t count when it comes to drawing new political districts.
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LDF Testifies in Support of Legislation Banning Prison-Based Gerrymandering in California
5/03/11(Sacramento, CA) – Today, Dale Ho, Assistant Counsel with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) will testify at a hearing at 1:30 pm before the California State Assembly’s Committee on Elections and Redistricting, in support of AB 420, which seeks to end the practice known as “prison-based gerrymandering” in California.
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Case of Eyewitness vs. Alibi Raises Question of Defense Lawyers’ Competence
5/02/11Source:The New York TimesRichard Rosario was convicted of a murder that took place on Turnbull Avenue in the Bronx on June 19, 1996, based on the testimony of two witnesses who had picked his picture out of a book of mug shots.
There was no other evidence linking him to the crime. He did not know the victim, and he did not know the witnesses. And there is powerful evidence that he was in Florida that entire month.
The Supreme Court is scheduled to decide next week whether to hear Mr. Rosario’s appeal, which claims his lawyers badly bungled his alibi defense.
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Leading Civil Rights Groups Urge Department of Justice to Require Florida to Submit Voting Change for Review
5/02/11Announced Changes to Voting Have Not Been Approved by Department of Justice
(New York, NY) – Today, the nation’s leading civil rights organizations, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), NAACP, Florida State Conference of the NAACP, and the Advancement Project, called upon the United States Department of Justice to require the State of Florida to submit for review its recent changes to rules governing the restoration of voting rights to persons with felony convictions.