LDF, along with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC), strongly urge Westchester County to comply with a consent decree in which the county agreed ...
At the 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival panel titled “After the Gavel: The Supreme Court, the Future, and You” Sherrilyn Ifill, along with Theodore B. Olson, Neal Katyal, and Jeffrey Rosen discuss recent Supreme Court decisions and what ...
Ensuring Equal Opportunity in Employment: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Ten years after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education—where the doctrine ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) announced that Christina Swarns has been appointed its permanent Director of Litigation. For the past year, Ms. Swarns has served as LDF’s Interim Litigation Director ...
In a special edition of the Kentucky Courier-Journal, Jin Hee Lee writes on the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act that “The legacy of the Civil Rights Act and the civil rights movement, rests with all ...
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund is deeply disappointed by the Supreme Court decision granting private businesses an unprecedented religious exemption from the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that employee health plans include coverage for FDA-approved contraceptives. ...
