Tuesday, September 4, 2012 | case-update
Class Representative Nicole Cogdell discusses her experience with employment discrimination at Wet Seal in this CNN video interview.
Thursday, December 7, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. Class of Job Applicants Reach Settlement Resolving Lawsuit over Discriminatory Impact of WMATA’s Criminal Background Screening Policy Today, a class of African-American applicants and employees who were denied employment opportunities by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) or one of its contractors under a discontinued 2011 criminal background […]
Monday, November 8, 2010 | news
Class Actions Key Tool in Combating Discrimination Statement of LDF President and Director-Counsel on the Importance of Class Actions to Civil Rights Litigation in advance of oral argument in AT & T Mobility LLC v. Vincent and Liza Concepcion (New York, New York) – The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. […]
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 | news
MANHATTAN (CN) – Public housing residents can proceed with a class action lawsuit claiming that New York City and the New York City Housing Authority allowed the police to set up “checkpoints” that routinely violated tenants’ rights in front of their homes, a federal judge ruled. A lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense […]
Thursday, October 22, 2020 | staff
Clarence joins LDF as an Equal Justice Works Fellow sponsored by the Text-to-Give campaign. His fellowship project seeks to challenge the discriminatory use and impact of artificial intelligence and machine-learning technologies on communities of color and low-income communities. He is a 2020 graduate of New York University School of Law. While in law school, Clarence […]
Friday, October 5, 2012 | news
Southern District Judge Shira Scheindlin (See Profile) yesterday denied the city’s request for summary judgment against nine individuals claiming unlawful stops, frisks and arrests by New York City Police in the city’s housing authority buildings. Issuing an 84-page opinion in the putative class action Davis v. The City of New York, 10 Civ. 0699, Scheindlin said Fourth Amendment claims […]
Monday, April 4, 2011 | news
DETROIT — “The most critical civil rights issue of our day” — the school-to-prison pipeline — drew lawyers, educators and the public to Wayne State University Law School March 25. “What is the school-to- prison pipeline?” asked keynote speaker Damon T. Hewitt, director of education practice, NAACP Legal Defense Fund. “You can’t define it, you […]
Thursday, April 4, 2024 | news
Montgomery, Ala. — Today, a coalition of civil rights, voting rights and disability rights organizations sued Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, Alabama’s 42 District Attorneys, and Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen to block Alabama’s recently enacted Senate Bill 1 (SB 1). This law directly targets, drastically restricts, and severely penalizes basic nonpartisan civic engagement […]
Friday, May 3, 2024 | news
Montgomery, AL — Today, a coalition of civil rights, voting rights, and disability rights organizations filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in Alabama State Conference of the NAACP et al. v. Marshall et al. With this motion, Plaintiffs ask the court to pause the state of Alabama from criminalizing the assistance of voters with […]
Friday, July 29, 2022 | news
As organizations that have spent years fighting for civil rights, racial justice and the genuine safety that all of our communities deserve, we stand together to oppose a vote in the House of Representatives on a combined rule that would join together two issues that should not be dependent on one another—preventative measures, including a […]
