Friday, May 13, 2011 | news
(New York, New York) – This morning, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled in favor of a class of over 6,000 qualified African-American firefighter applicants who were unfairly denied the opportunity to work for the Chicago Fire Department. Last Spring, after over a decade of litigation, the NAACP Legal Defense & […]
Friday, May 13, 2011 | case-update
This morning, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled in favor of a class of over 6,000 qualified African-American firefighter applicants who were unfairly denied the opportunity to work for the Chicago Fire Department. Last Spring, after over a decade of litigation, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and […]
Friday, July 1, 2011 | case-update
(New York, NY) — Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit struck down a Michigan ballot initiative that unconstitutionally limited access to opportunity at the state’s public universities and in other contexts. Passed in 2006 and commonly known as “Proposal 2,” the initiative was a deliberate effort to prohibit precisely the types of […]
Thursday, July 22, 2010 | case-update
In a July 2010 opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld some key aspects of North Carolina’s program to remedy discrimination in the construction industry. “This ruling upholds critical parts of the state’s Minority and Women Owned Business Program, which was designed to promote fair competition for public contracts in response […]
Friday, July 9, 2010 | case-update
On July 19, 2010, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted LDF’s motion to participate in oral argument as a friend of the court.
Thursday, July 29, 2021 | news
Today, community organizations, attorneys behind the class-action lawsuits that challenged the New York City Police Department (NYPD)’s stop-and-frisk and trespass-enforcement practices, and elected officials rallied at One Police Plaza to demand an end to the NYPD’s unconstitutional stop-and-frisk abuses. Lawyers for the plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit that challenged the NYPD’s racially discriminatory and unconstitutional […]
Tuesday, October 22, 2024 | news
Today at 2 p.m., a federal district court in New Orleans will hear arguments on a motion to remove all children and faculty from Fifth Ward Elementary School in a desegregation case against the St. John the Baptist Parish School Board. The school is in the U.S. Census tract with the highest risk of cancer […]
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 | news
Following a three-day virtual preliminary injunction hearing the week of July 19, late last night a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas granted a request made by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and pro bono co-counsel Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP (Akin Gump) […]
Saturday, July 31, 2010 | news
The funding formula used to provide grants to New Orleans residents whose homes were damaged or destroyed by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita very likely disadvantaged black homeowners because it was based on depressed property values that result from both current racial isolation and the city’s segregated past, a U.S. District Court judge has indicated. As […]
Friday, August 18, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. Court Decision in Louisiana Voting Rights Case Changes the Course of History for Black Voters for the Better Yesterday, a federal district court ruled in favor of the Terrebonne Parish NAACP and four Black voters, represented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), the law firm […]
