Tuesday, June 10, 2025 | news
Yesterday, a three-judge panel from the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that Black homeowners and residents who have been impacted by the city of Cleveland’s discriminatory water billing policies may continue their federal class action lawsuit claiming discrimination under the Fair Housing Act. The lawsuit, brought by the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), Covington […]
Tuesday, May 23, 2023 | news
Today, a federal appeals court reversed a lower court ruling in Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board, holding that a new admissions policy which created more equal access for Black, Latinx, and underserved Asian American students at the Fairfax, VA high school is in fact constitutional. Today’s decision by the U.S. Court of […]
Monday, December 2, 2013 | news
On Tuesday, December 3, Natasha Korgaonkar, assistant counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Political Participation Group, and Sarah Brannon, attorney for co-counsel Project Vote, will present oral argument before a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that Louisiana has violated the National Voter Registration Act by failing to provide mandatory voter registration […]
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 | news
ATLANTA — A federal appeals court hearing in a case that may enable hundreds of thousands of Floridians to register to vote in time for the November election concluded today after two hours of oral argument. The case concerns Senate Bill 7066, signed into law by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2019. Senate Bill 7066 made voting […]
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 | case-update
On Tuesday, December 3, Natasha Korgaonkar, assistant counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Political Participation Group, and Sarah Brannon, attorney for co-counsel Project Vote, presented oral argument before a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that Louisiana has violated the National Voter Registration Act by failing to provide mandatory voter registration opportunities to […]
Wednesday, February 19, 2020 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. A federal appeals court upheld a ruling blocking a Florida law that created wealth-based hurdles to voting and significantly curtailed Florida’s Voting Restoration Amendment, also known as Amendment 4, which sought to end lifetime disenfranchisement and automatically restore voting rights to 1.4 million Floridians. The law would have […]
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | news
NEW YORK – Today, a federal appeals court issued a decision in a lawsuit aiming to halt New York City’s attempts to make admissions to its selective public high schools fairer and more inclusive for the city’s diverse student population. The case, Christa McAuliffe Intermediate School PTO v. Bill de Blasio, began in 2019 and alleges […]
Friday, September 11, 2020 | news
Eleventh Circuit Upholds Florida Law That Bars Hundreds of Thousands of Floridians From Voting Solely Because They Lack Enough Money ATLANTA — A federal appeals court today upheld a Florida law that created wealth-based hurdles to voting. The decision denies voting rights to hundreds of thousands of people with past felony convictions. The case, Jones v. […]
Monday, December 3, 2012 | news
It’s just the latest problem to plague Wet Seal: The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has determined that the fashion retailer discriminated against a former African American store manager. The federal agency said that Nicole Cogdell, who once worked as a manager of a Wet Seal store in Pennsylvania, was “subjected to a hostile work environment and the […]
Friday, October 5, 2012 | case-update
Yesterday, a federal court rejected the City of New York’s and New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA)’s attempt to dismiss claims that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) is wrongfully stopping and arresting public housing residents and guests for trespassing. Instead, Judge Shira A. Scheindlin declared that Davis v. City of New York, the lawsuit […]
