Wednesday, December 26, 2018 | case-issue
On April 12, 2018, Private Plaintiffs—parents of Black children enrolled in the Meridian Public School District, represented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) and Fred Banks, Jr. of Phelps Dunbar LLP—filed an opposition in federal court to the Meridian Public School District’s motion for a declaration of unitary status in this […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
On January 31, 2017, U.S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman entered a consent order submitted by LDF on behalf of Black parents in Banks v. St. James Parish School Board, a school desegregation case. For months, LDF and local counsel, Gideon T. Carter, III, have worked with the St. James School Board and the U.S. Department of Justice to develop […]
Thursday, August 2, 2012 | news
Delma Banks, who was once sentenced to die for the 1980 murder of a Nash, Texas, teenager, accepted a sentence of life Wednesday, ending a case that has lingered in the court system for 32 years. Read the full story in the Texarkana Gazette.
Monday, September 29, 2014 | news
Decision Comes As United Nations Delegates Announce Investigation into Human Rights Violations DETROIT, MI— Today, the ACLU of Michigan and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., a separate entity from the NAACP, expressed deep disappointment with a federal judge’s decision to deny a motion that would have temporarily stopped water service shut-offs to Detroit […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
On June 28, 2016, the Supreme Court of the United States granted and consolidated two cases about whether the City of Miami can sue for predatory and discriminatory lending practices. These cases are brought under the Fair Housing Act of 1967, which is a critical tool for combating housing discrimination and a means of seeking […]
Monday, September 20, 2010 | news
Washington prohibits prison inmates and former inmates on probation from voting. Secretary of State Sam Reed says the ban goes back to when Washington was a territory and notes 47 other states have some form of felon voter disenfranchisement. Sam Reed: “We believe the loss of voting rights is really a reasonable and appropriate sanction […]
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 | page
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Thursday, August 18, 2016 | news
The Questions Raised by Gaines’ death The death of Korryn Gaines after a seven-hour standoff with Baltimore County police at her Randallstown apartment poses a real challenge to a department that has made pointed efforts during the last two years to prevent the kind of racial tension between law enforcement and the community that has […]
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 | news
Today, the Bradford v. Maryland State Department of Education legal team hosted a press conference with advocates in support of a letter sent yesterday by parents of students attending public schools in Baltimore City to Governor Larry Hogan, Senate President Bill Ferguson, and House Speaker Adrienne Jones. The advocates urged state leaders to act now […]
Friday, December 18, 2015 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.; the Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center; Covington & Burling LLP; and the ACLU of Maryland, filed a complaint with the United States Department of Transportation on behalf of the Baltimore Regional Initiative Developing Genuine Equality, Inc. (“BRIDGE”), and African-American residents of the City of Baltimore, […]
