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Louis H. Pollak, Civil Rights Advocate and Federal Judge, Dies at 89

Louis H. Pollak, a federal judge and former dean of two prestigious law schools who played a significant role in major civil rights cases before the Supreme Court, including the landmark Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case, died on Tuesday at his home in Philadelphia. He was 89. The cause was congestive heart failure, […]

Louis A. Bedford, IV

Louis A. Bedford, IV serves as Policy Counsel at the Legal Defense Fund.  He is a civil rights attorney, policy strategist, and voting rights expert from Dallas, Texas, known for his deep commitment to democratic justice. A graduate of UT Law and a former Legal Counsel in the Texas Senate, Louis has led efforts in […]

Looking Ahead: Furthering Fair Housing in Los Angeles County

Part 1 AFFH in Context Part 2 Striking a Balance Part 3 Connecting the Dots Part 4 Best Practices Part 5 Looking Ahead Part 5 Looking Ahead The Los Angeles County Experience: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing in America’s Largest County By Julián Castro Senior Fellow, the Legal Defense Fund’s Thurgood Marshall Institute When the Obama […]

Loitering Rules in Projects Are Too Vague, Judge Says

A federal judge in Manhattan declared on Thursday that the rules against loitering in public housing complexes were unconstitutionally vague, and gave the police too much discretion about whom to arrest. The ruling by Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of Federal District Court in Manhattan allowed a lawsuit challenging police arrests for trespassing in housing projects […]

Locked Out of the Classroom: How Implicit Bias Contributes to Disparities in School Discipline

Lobbyists on President Obama’s Gun-Control Proposals

Groups not typically associated with the debate over gun rights have taken a strong interest in the proposals that the White House put forward. Civil rights activists, mayors, psychiatrists, scientists and teachers are among those who plan to dispatch lobbyists to try and shape the debate. … The NAACP Legal and Educational Fund is similarly critical […]

Lobbyists of all stripes swarm President Obama’s gun-control proposals

President Obama’s gun-control recommendations have created a lobbying free-for-all on Capitol Hill. Groups not typically associated with the debate over gun rights have taken a strong interest in the proposals that the White House put forward. Civil rights activists, mayors, psychiatrists, scientists and teachers are among those who plan to dispatch lobbyists to try and […]

Little v. Washington Metro Area Transit Authority

In July 2014, LDF’s Economic Justice Program, together with the Washington Lawyers’ Committee and the law firm Arnold and Porter LLP, filed a class action lawsuit against the Washington Metro Area Transit Authority and three of its contractors, challenging their use of an overly broad and unnecessarily punitive criminal background screening policy. According to the […]

Little v. LATFOR

Last year, New York enacted legislation (known as “Part XX”) ending the practice known as “prison-based gerrymandering,” and realigning the state’s redistricting practices with basic principles of equality. “Prison-based gerrymandering” is a practice whereby many states and local governments count incarcerated persons as residents of the areas where they are housed when election district lines […]