Thursday, December 8, 2022 | page
Part 1 AFFH in Context Part 2 Striking a Balance Part 3 Connecting the Dots Part 4 Best Practices Part 5 Looking Ahead Part 4 Best Practices: Tapping into Communities 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 […]
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 | staff
After graduating in 2018 from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a Public Interest Fellow, Tanesha worked as the Director of Organizing and Community Building for Families Against Mandatory Minimums, a criminal justice reform advocacy organization based in D.C. There, she led a team of organizers to help community members turn the resources they […]
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 | case-issue
T.R. v. Lamar County Board of Education Challenging Qualified Immunity Fourteen-year-old T.R. was nearing the end of her school day at Sulligent High School on August 28, 2017, when she was removed from agriculture class, taken to another part of campus, and forced—twice—by the school principal, Dr. Lisa Stamps, and the counselor, Kathy Dean, to […]
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 | news
The “school to prison pipeline” symposium was held at the Wayne State Law School on March 25. The event focused on a process that is used by some public schools to expel minority students by reprimanding them harshly for minor offences. Keynote speaker Damon T. Hewitt, who is a director at the NAACP Legal Defense […]
Thursday, December 4, 2014 | news
On NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, LDF Director of Litigation Christina Swarns voices frustration over the grand jury decision not to indict Staten Island police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the choking death of Eric Garner: “These are people’s childern that are being killed and you cannot have that happen and have no response.”
Wednesday, November 26, 2014 | news
Must watch: Our Director of Litigation Christina Swarns explains why McCullough’s presentation to the grand jury and the entire grand jury process was “unheard of.” “That was the lightest cross examination I’ve ever witnessed,” she says. Start at 18 minutes in.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 | news
Ruling Could Bolster Lawsuits Against Police In a recent piece in the National Law Journal, Director of Litigation Christina Swarns states that, “Tolan resonates today in many ways. We were thrilled when the court ruled as it did,” said Christina Swarns, litigation director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which filed a brief […]
Monday, June 17, 2013 | news
Statement by NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill Today, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Mount Holly v. Mount Holly Gardens Citizens in Action, Inc. We call on the Court to use this case as an opportunity to continue our nation’s progress to ensure that all families have a fair opportunity to find […]
Thursday, April 6, 2006 | case-update
(New York, NY) – On March 5, 2009 the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) filed a friend of the court brief in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal’s claim that his trial prosecutor intentionally excluded prospective jurors of color from service on his capital trial because of their race. LDF’s brief objected to the United […]
Friday, November 9, 2012 | case-update
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case brought by Shelby County, Alabama that challenges the constitutionality of the heart of the Voting Rights Act. The case, Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, involves a challenge to the federal “preclearance” provision of the Voting Rights Act, which requires states and jurisdictions with […]
