Monday, June 1, 2015 | news
Today the United States Supreme Court reaffirmed the right of job seekers to be free of discrimination in hiring. Declaring that “[a]n employer may not make an applicant’s religious practice, confirmed or otherwise, a factor in [an] employment decision,” the Supreme Court rejected apparel chain Abercrombie & Fitch’s claim that it had the right to […]
Thursday, July 13, 2017 | news
LDF Statement on U.S. Transportation Department’s Decision to Close Red Line Inquiry Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation served notice in a letter to the Maryland Department of Transportation that it has closed the complaint without finding. In December of 2015, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF); the Civil Rights Education and Enforcement […]
Friday, June 26, 2015 | news
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that the Constitution’s promise of equal protection requires states to recognize the right of same-sex couples to marry. In Obergefell v. Hodges, Justice Kennedy announced that “the right to marry is a fundamental right inherent in the liberty of the person, and under the Due Process and Equal Protection […]
Monday, June 29, 2015 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund is deeply disappointed that the United States Supreme Court has upheld the lethal injection cocktail used by Oklahoma to carry out executions. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Glossip v. Gross means that Oklahoma, and the other states that rely on similar execution protocols, can continue to expose condemned prisoners to […]
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | news
Today the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in Abbott v. Perez about whether to affirm a three-judge court’s decisions that Texas’s congressional and state legislative redistricting maps, implemented in 2013, unlawfully furthered and maintained the purposeful dilution of Black and Latino voting strength in 2011 maps and that the electoral districts impacted by that purposeful discrimination […]
Monday, March 18, 2019 | news
The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it will not re-examine the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal’s decision to deny Keith Tharpe the ability to appeal his racially-biased death sentence. One of the jurors who sentenced Tharpe to death later signed an affidavit in which he claimed that there are two types of Black people: […]
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 | news
In Timbs v. Indiana, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that the Eighth Amendment’s protection against excessive fines and fees applies to the states as well as the federal government. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the case making clear that historically, states used criminal fines as […]
Friday, June 29, 2018 | news
In 2016, the Obama Administration finalized regulations that would help protect students—particularly students of color—from widespread and well-documented racial disparities in the identification, placement, and discipline of students with disabilities. The regulations are designed to ensure that states are appropriately identifying and addressing these racial disparities in special education. Todd Cox, Director of Policy at […]
Friday, September 23, 2016 | news
President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Sherrilyn Ifill issued the following statement regarding the indictment of Officer Betty Shelby, who killed Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, and the release of the Scott family’s video footage of the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte: “In the face of community anguish and the […]
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. Today, the White House issued an executive order directing U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to conduct a study on the federal government’s role in K-12 education and align existing education policy with this Administration’s vision of the proper role of the federal government in K-12 education. NAACP […]
