The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development issued a regulation Friday designed to make it easier to enforce a 45-year-old law to combat housing discrimination by lenders, insurers, landlords and municipalities. The so-called disparate-impact ...
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today applauds the issuance of final regulations by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that endorse use of the “disparate impact” standard under the ...
Broad Range of Briefs Urge the United States Supreme Court to Uphold a Landmark Voting Rights Protection (Washington, D.C.) Today, a broad and diverse range of friend-of-the-court briefs are being filed in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, ...
Today, President Obama announced his proposals in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. They contain many positive elements for addressing the root causes of violence in communities and also acknowledged the ...
Public Agency Clients Must Be Offered an Opportunity to Register to Vote (New Orleans, LA) – On January 23, voting rights advocates won a major legal victory on behalf of Louisiana’s public assistance agency clients, ...
Increasing the presence of armed police officers and guards in public schools in response to the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut will bring unintended consequences, a coalition warned today. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, ...
NAACP Legal Defense Fund Encourages Strong Federal Legislative Effort To Address School Discipline Policies (Washington, DC) – The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) welcomes a Senate hearing today on “Ending the School to ...
