Wednesday, October 27, 2010 | news
Schnapper began his legal career, not in employment law but in civil rights. The first appellate brief he worked on was for Bobby Seale, one of the "Chicago 7" defendants accused of inciting riots at the Chicago Democratic convention in 1968. Schnapper was a lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund from 1969 […]
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 | news
(New York, NY) – Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered rehearing in a case challenging Washington State’s racially discriminatory law that denies the vote to people with felony convictions. A panel of eleven judges will reconsider this important civil rights case. In the earlier ruling in Farrakhan v. Gregoire, a three-judge panel […]
Thursday, April 29, 2010 | case-update
(New York, NY) – Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered rehearing in a case challenging Washington State’s racially discriminatory law that denies the vote to people with felony convictions. A panel of eleven judges will reconsider this important civil rights case. In the earlier ruling in Farrakhan v. Gregoire, a three-judge panel of the […]
Friday, October 29, 2010 | case-update
Yesterday the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to consider LDF’s Amicus brief regading the significance of the term “boy” in the workplace, in the case Hithon v Tyson Foods, Inc.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 | news
The New York Court of Appeals today declined to hear plaintiffs’ direct appeal in Little v. LATFOR, a lawsuit challenging New York’s law ending prison-based gerrymandering. The plaintiffs — who include upstate elected officials who would no longer unjustly benefit from claiming incarcerated people as residents of their districts — had sought to skip the […]
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 | news
The NAACP has been collecting information about early voting advocacy by black churches in Florida, hoping to convince the Justice Department to strike down a slew of new state voting laws it claims are intended to thwart growing minority participation at the polls ahead of next year’s presidential election. In a report released Monday, the […]
Thursday, February 3, 2011 | news
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday questioned whether a key component of the landmark Voting Rights Act is outdated, expressing skepticism about using evidence of racial discrimination from 40 or 50 years ago to justify continued election monitoring for a group of mostly Southern states. “We’re now looking at a situation where that information […]
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 | news
The court heard argument Tuesday in a dispute between wireless provider AT&T Mobility and a California couple who objected to being charged around $30 in sales tax for what they were told was a free cell phone. Like many such contracts, the fine print of the agreement between AT&T and Liza and Vincent Concepcion calls […]
Thursday, January 13, 2011 | news
BATON ROUGE — Louisiana departments aren’t complying with a federal law that requires public assistance agencies that serve low-income residents to offer them voter registration, a civil rights group said Wednesday. Lawyers representing the Louisiana State Conference of the NAACP sent a complaint letter to Secretary of State Tom Schedler, the Department of Children and […]
Monday, July 24, 2023 | staff
Anuja Thatte is a Senior Counsel in LDF’s DC office. Anuja is lead counsel in a litigation challenging an Alabama law that restricts the right of disabled, blind, and low literacy voters from receiving requested assistance with the absentee voting process. Among other representative matters, she has litigated incursions on the right to protest, the […]
