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Chisom v. State of Louisiana: Ensuring Access to Equal Representation in the Judicial Branch

Chisom v. State of Louisiana Ensuring Black voters in Orleans Parish have an equal opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice to the Louisiana Supreme Court The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the law firm Cozen O’Connor, and Louisiana civil rights attorneys Ronald Wilson and William Quigley represent Ronald Chisom, Marie Bookman, and the Urban […]

Children Arrest Incidents Show the Barbarity of Policing Kids

Justice in Public Safety Project Children Arrest Incidents Show the Barbarity of Policing Kids By John Guzman Communications Associate — Police Accountability Content Warning: This article contains descriptions of police violence against children. Source: Photo by Stephen Maturen via Getty Images Source: Photo by Stephen Maturen via Getty Images Law enforcement officers brutalize and criminalize […]

Chicago Tribune: Blacks divided over possible menthol ban

The longest Samuel Johnson has ever been able to give up menthol cigarettes is three months. Every time he tries to quit, he said, that cool, minty flavor that first drew him and other African-American smokers to menthols lures him back. "Everybody has a habit and mine is smoking cigarettes," said Johnson, 20, standing outside […]

Chicago to pay $30 million, hire 111 black firefighters

Chicago will hire 111 bypassed black firefighters by March 2012 and pay at least $30 million in damages to some 6,000 others who will never get that chance, under a court order expected to be approved Wednesday by a federal judge. Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously agreed that African-American candidates did not wait […]

Chicago Ordered to Hire 111 Black Firefighters

CHICAGO — The City of Chicago must hire 111 black firefighter applicants who were passed over for jobs years ago and pay tens of millions of dollars in damages to about 6,000 other black candidates under a ruling issued on Friday by a federal appeals court. The decision from the United States Court of Appeals […]

Chicago Continues to Resist Justice for Firefighter Applicants

In January 2011, LDF filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Lewis v. City of Chicago.  This is the latest round, following our unanimous victory in the Supreme Court, of our long-running litigation to secure justice for over 6,000 African-American applicants unfairly denied firefighter jobs with the Chicago Fire […]

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Charges of Bias in Admission Test Policy at Eight Elite Public High Schools

A coalition of educational and civil rights groups filed a federal complaint on Thursday saying that black and Hispanic students were disproportionately excluded from New York City’s most selective high schools because of a single-test admittance policy they say is racially discriminatory. The complaint, filed with the United States Education Department, seeks to have the policy found […]

Change the Maryland Public Information Act

Police Accountability Requires Transparency In Maryland, police misconduct investigations are sometimes closed, and officers cleared, because of inadequate investigations. If access is limited to certain types of complaints, they may be misclassified, hiding troubling conduct that the public has a right to know about. Currently, Maryland’s Public Information Act has been interpreted to block the release […]

Challenging California’s Death Penalty: Confronting Racial Bias in Capital Punishment Sentencing Schemes

Case: Capital Punishment Challenging California’s Death Penalty System Confronting Racial Bias in Capital Punishment Sentencing Schemes On April 9, 2024, civil rights and legal groups filed a challenge to California’s death penalty in the State Supreme Court. The lawsuit asserts the state’s death penalty statute is racially discriminatory, as applied, and therefore unconstitutional under the […]