Job Applicants Enter Settlement with Target Corporation over Discriminatory Criminal Background Screening Policy

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The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the law firm of Outten & Golden LLP have reached a settlement with Target Corporation to resolve allegations that its overly broad and outdated criminal background check policy discriminated ...

Sherrilyn Ifill Pens Op-Ed for CNN: King’s Place in History is Still Unfolding

By: Sherrilyn Ifill Source: CNN   A decade before his shocking assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on behalf of the Montgomery Improvement Association, sent a thoughtful letter and a $1,000 check to Thurgood Marshall, then director-counsel ...

Advocates Convey Support for Civil Rights and School Safety to Secretary DeVos

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Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and AAUW attended the School Safety and Climate Summit hosted by Secretary of ...

Louisiana Bill Would Provide Black Voters in Terrebonne Parish the Opportunity to Elect Judges of Their Choice

Related Case or Issue: Terrebonne Parish Branch NAACP, et al. v. Jindal, et al.   Today, Rep. Randal L. Gaines, Chair of Louisiana’s Legislative Black Caucus, introduced legislation, House Bill (H.B.) 861, to change the way ...

Related Case or Issue: Policing Reform Campaign

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Related Case or Issue: Policing Reform Campaign   Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Kisela v. Hughes, ruling in favor of an Arizona police officer who shot a woman outside her home in Tucson. Jin Hee ...

LDF Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief Against Trump Administration’s Discriminatory Muslim Ban

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LDF Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief Against Trump Administration’s Discriminatory Muslim Ban Government’s Reliance on Unsubstantiated Concerns Regarding National Security Echoes Dark Chapters of American History Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. ...

LDF Responds to President Trump’s De-Legitimizing Judicial Independence

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This morning, President Donald Trump issued a statement on Twitter suggesting that Republicans “must always hold” the Supreme Court. Samuel Spital, Director of Litigation at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the ...

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