Friday, May 26, 2023 | news
A federal district court in Louisiana issued a ruling today in the Thomas v. School Board of St. Martin Parish desegregation case. The court ordered the St. Martin school board to adopt remedial proposals put forward by plaintiffs. The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and co-counsel Gideon Garter of Baton Rouge represent the plaintiffs, Black students […]
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 | news
On Friday, May 24, 2013, the United States District Court for the District of Arizona issued a sweeping injunction permanently preventing controversial Arizona Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, from using race or Latino ancestry as a basis for the exercise of such law enforcement discretion as stopping a car or determining whether a Latino occupant of a vehicle may be in the country without […]
Saturday, November 11, 2023 | news
Media Contacts Legal Defense Fund (LDF) / media@naacpldf.org Inga Sarda-Sorensen, ACLU National / isarda-sorensen@aclu.org, 347-514-3984 Ella Wiley, ACLU National / ewiley@aclu.org, 925-819-0555 NEW ORLEANS – The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals today agreed with a lower court that the congressional map enacted by the Louisiana Legislature following the 2020 census is discriminatory and likely violates […]
Monday, September 11, 2023 | news
Media Contacts Ella Wiley, Legal Defense Fund (LDF) – media@naacpldf.org/212-965-2200 Brad Wise, NewsPros – Reed Smith LLP – brad@newspros.com/925-588-4744 Linda Yun, ArentFox Schiff – linda.yun@afslaw.com/312-258-4504 Jackie Dilworth, The Arc – dilworth@thearc.org /202-617-3271 Kerry-Ann Hamilton, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. – inquiries@deltasigmatheta.org/301-265-5100 Emaan England, Houston Area Urban League – eengland@haul.org/404-668-2329 [San Antonio, Texas] – Today, the […]
Tuesday, December 19, 2023 | news
Today, a federal court for the Northern District of Alabama denied a motion to dismiss and ruled that a lawsuit filed by the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) challenging the Jefferson County Commission’s 2021 redistricting plan as a racial gerrymander should proceed as quickly as possible. While the Court also denied plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary […]
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | news
Washington, D.C. — In a victory for voting accessibility across Alabama, the Alabama NAACP (AL NAACP), Greater Birmingham Ministries (GBM), the League of Women Voters of Alabama (LWVAL), and the Alabama Disability Advocates Program (ADAP) have successfully defended the rights of absentee voters who are disabled, blind, and low literacy to receive the help of […]
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 | case-update
On Wednesday, April 2, 2014, a federal district court approved a settlement to resolve a long-running lawsuit at a hearing in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. This case challenged the New York City Board of Education’s discriminatory policies for hiring public school custodians. LDF represents ten African-American and Latino […]
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 | case-update
On Monday, December 9, 2013, a federal district court approved a $7.5 million settlement of a national class action lawsuit, which alleged that Wet Seal had a policy of denying equal pay and promotion opportunities and firing African-American store management employees, clearing the way for implementation of the injunctive relief and payments to the class […]
Monday, April 10, 2017 | case-update
Read a PDF of our statement here. A federal district court has found in Veasey v. Abbott that Texas bill SB 14 – the strictest photo ID law in the country – was enacted to purposefully discriminate against Black and Latino voters. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) first challenged and defeated the bill in 2012 […]
Monday, April 10, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. Today, a federal district court found in Veasey v. Abbott that Texas bill SB 14 – the strictest photo ID law in the country – was enacted to purposefully discriminate against Black and Latino voters. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) first challenged and defeated […]
