Monday, May 15, 2023 | news
CONTACT: Inga Sarda-Sorensen, ACLU, 347-514-3984, isarda-sorensen@aclu.org Ella Wiley, Legal Defense Fund, 212-965-2200, media@naacpldf.org WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court today said it will hear an appeal to a ruling that ordered South Carolina to redraw its congressional map because the state’s Congressional District 1 discriminated against Black voters on the basis of race. The Legal […]
Tuesday, June 26, 2018 | news
Today, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 opinion in Trump v. Hawaii that Hawaii was not entitled to stop President Trump’s order banning most of the 180 million nationals from a number of predominately Muslim countries from entering the United States. In so doing, the majority of the Court deferred to the Government’s stated concerns about […]
Monday, May 21, 2018 | news
Today, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 opinion that employers may use arbitration clauses to stop workers from joining forces to challenge workplace violations, at least in certain contexts. Such clauses—which may be buried in employment paperwork or a condition for someone to be hired—may now prohibit employees from working together to dispute unjust practices in […]
Tuesday, October 2, 2012 | case-update
On Wednesday, October 10th, 2012, the United States Supreme Court will hear a closely-watched case on diversity in college admissions in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. Visit our main web page on the Fisher Case. Please see the case overview, a list of the avalanche of amicus briefs filed, a Q&A, a description of the UT admissions process and our brief. Fisher v. […]
Wednesday, June 26, 2013 | news
Statement of Sherrilyn Ifill President & Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. on the Court’s Decisions in United States v. Windsor and Hollingsworth v. Perry (Washington, D.C.) Today, the U.S. Supreme Court took a step forward in ensuring equality for gay and lesbian Americans by striking down the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) because it deprives […]
Wednesday, June 26, 2013 | case-update
(Washington, D.C.) Today, the U.S. Supreme Court took a step forward in ensuring equality for gay and lesbian Americans by striking down the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) because it deprives gays and lesbians who are legally married under state law of the liberty and equality protected by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. The Court […]
Thursday, June 23, 2016 | case-update
Statement of Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. on the Court’s Decision in Fisher v. University of Texas Today’s decision by the Supreme Court in Fisher v. University of Texas is a huge victory for civil rights and equality in our nation. The Court’s ruling upholds longstanding precedent and will allow […]
Thursday, June 23, 2016 | news
Statement of Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense andEducational Fund, Inc. on the Court’s Decision in Fisher v. University of Texas Today’s decision by the Supreme Court in Fisher v. University of Texas is a huge victory for civil rights and equality in our nation. The Court’s ruling upholds longstanding precedent […]
Monday, April 20, 2020 | news
Today, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiff in Ramos v. Louisiana, establishing that the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a unanimous jury verdict applies to the states through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), which filed an amicus brief in […]
Friday, June 21, 2019 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. The U.S. Supreme Court today condemned racial discrimination in jury selection, reversing Curtis Flowers’ 2010 conviction and death sentence because the prosecution was motivated by racial discrimination in striking a prospective Black juror from serving at Flowers’ trial. The ruling comes in Flowers v. Mississippi, a case in […]
