On May 22, Everett De’Andre Arnold, Sandy Arnold, and Cindy Bradford (on behalf of her minor son K.B.) filed a lawsuit against the Barbers Hill Independent School District (BHISD), its Board of Trustees, and additional ...
This morning, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) issued the following statements from Janai Nelson, LDF’s Associate Director-Counsel, and Monique Dixon, the Director of LDF’s Policing Reform Campaign, on the police-involved killing ...
Moratorium Requested on NYPD Social-Distancing Enforcement New York, NY – Today, the attorneys behind two of the three landmark class action lawsuits that challenged the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk and trespass enforcement practices as racially discriminatory and ...
A federal court today blocked a South Carolina requirement that forced people who vote absentee to obtain a witness signature. The ruling, which applies to the June primary, makes it safer for South Carolinians to ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A federal court today ruled that a Florida law that created wealth-based hurdles to voting is unconstitutional. The decision restores voting rights to hundreds of thousands of people with past felony convictions. ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an emergency amicus brief on behalf of Texas voters in the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The brief opposes a stay sought by ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined fourteen other civil rights, consumer protection, and industry leaders in issuing a statement condemning the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)’s newly announced changes to ...
