LDF to Argue in Supreme Court Case Defending Voting Right Act

Source: LDF

The Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder on February 27, 2013. Debo Adegbile, Special Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) will argue on behalf of ...

Civil Rights Complaint Filed Against Texas School District for Issuing Class C Misdemeanor Tickets at Higher Rate to African-American Students

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (“LDF”) joined other advocates in filing a federal civil rights complaint challenging a Texas school district’s practice of using law enforcement officers to issue criminal misdemeanor tickets to ...

New HUD Rule Bolsters Housing-Bias Law

Source: The Wall Street Journal

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 ...

New HUD Regulations Will Help Reduce Housing Discrimination

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 ...

Voting Rights Act Still Needed to Beat Back Voter Suppression

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, ...

LDF Responds to Administration Proposals on Gun Violence: Suggests Schools Decline to Increase Police Presence

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 ...

Federal Court Rules That Louisiana Systemically Violated the NVRA

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, ...

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