Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | page
23 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 On June 25, 2013, the Supreme Court struck down one of the most important provisions of the Voting Rights Act, leaving millions of […]
Sunday, January 30, 2011 | news
For black residents and their lawyers, diluting the strength of any one black voter is problematic. “If there has been a discriminatory voting change, it is not absolved because there have been ten or one hundred non-discriminatory changes; the act of discrimination is still odious,” wrote lawyers for the defendants who intervened in the case, […]
Friday, September 17, 2010 | news
Shelby County's challenge to theconstitutionality of portions of the Voting Rights Act got on a faster legal track Thursday when a federal judge in Washington denied a government request for more fact-finding. Shelby County's claim that two key sections of the landmark law — requiring certain states and cities to get their election procedures pre-approved […]
Thursday, February 3, 2011 | news
WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Shelby County asked a federal judge in Washington today to declare two key parts of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional because Congress relied on old voting statistics when it extended the historic civil rights law for another 25 years. “Certainly it was rational for Congress to choose to stay the course […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
Timeline Voting Policy Changes Redistricting Litigation Shelby County v. Holder is a seminal voting rights case that ultimately dismantled essential protections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). The case has had a devastating impact on voting rights and redistricting. The case was a challenge to the constitutionality of Sections 4(b) and 5 of […]
Monday, July 2, 2018 | scholarship-rec
Sheila Jackson Lee represented the 18th Congressional District of Texas in the United States House of Representatives. Since her election in 1994, she was become an influential voice in Washington, and was named by ‘Congressional Quarterly’ as one of the 50 most effective Members of Congress. Originally from Queens, New York, Rep. Jackson Lee earned […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
SETTLEMENT In January 2022, a final settlement agreement was reached in Sheff v. O’Neill. If the proposed settlement is approved by both a judge and the Connecticut State Legislature, it will result in a permanent injunction enforcing the key terms of a long-term Comprehensive Choice Plan (CCP) intended to redress the consequences of decades of […]
Monday, January 7, 2019 | ldf-events
Join us as we commemorate the filing of the landmark Sheff v. O’Neill school desegregation case with a community conversation on the history and future of educational equity in Connecticut and workshops highlighting the advocacy of Hartford parents and students. It’s been 30 years since a group of parents from Hartford and surrounding towns came […]
Wednesday, September 8, 2021 | news
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued a decision in Ferguson v. McDonough, permitting Joseph Ferguson’s civil rights claims to proceed. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational and Fund, Inc. (LDF), working with Rights Behind Bars, represented Mr. Ferguson, who was tased without reason by a police officer in the middle of […]
Friday, February 21, 2025 | page
Policy Advocacy: Education Setting the Record Straight The U.S. Department of Education’s Anti-Opportunity “Dear Colleague Letter” What Schools, Parents and Students Need to Know Source: Shutterstock.com On Feb. 14, 2025, the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education (ED OCR) sent a “Dear Colleague” letter grossly misstating the law and threatening to […]
