On Monday, April 5, 2014, the United States Supreme Court announced that the excessive force lawsuit filed by Washington Nationals baseball player, Robbie Tolan, was improperly dismissed by the United States Court of Appeals for ...
Access to fair credit affects all aspects of an individual’s or family’s life. Unfortunately, African-American borrowers are often steered into predatory, risky loan products, or denied access to any credit at all. To address these issues, on April ...
In the days and weeks leading up to last night’s horrifying execution of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma, there was much debate about the validity of the call for transparency in execution procedures. Some contended that ...
Statement of Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund When LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s racist remarks came to light and spread over the Internet like wildfire, the NBA acted quickly ...
Photo courtesy Loteria Films In a progress report co-published by Stanford Law School’s “Three Strikes Project” and LDF, the recidivism rate among inmates released under California’s Prop. 36, also known as the Three Strikes Reform ...
Statement from Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Today, over 1,000 law professors and deans have signed onto a letter condemning the disturbing message sent by the Senate’s failure to ...
This week, Sherrilyn Ifill and NAACP LDF’s Education Group recorded a high volume of media hits around the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Schuette vs. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action. SCOTUS broke with longstanding precedent by refusing to ...
