South Carolina Voter Photo ID Trial to Begin on August 27 in Washington, D.C. NAACP Legal Defense Fund Warns Photo ID Law Will Disenfranchise Minority Voters

(Washington, D.C.) The week-long trial before a three-judge federal court begins on Monday, August 27th in South Carolina v. United States, a case involving South Carolina’s restrictive photo identification law.  The trial begins at 9 ...

Texas Voter ID Trial to Start on July 9 in Washington, D.C.: NAACP Legal Defense Fund Warns Law Would Disfranchise Minority Voters

(Washington, D.C.) The weeklong trial before a three-judge federal court begins Monday, July 9th in Texas v. Holder, a case involving Texas’ proposed photo identification law.   The trial begins at 9:30 a.m. in Courtroom 8 ...

Federal Court Rejects Florida’s Early Voting Changes

(Washington, D.C.): A three-judge federal district court in Florida v. Holder rejected Florida’s proposal to dramatically reduce its early voting period in five counties, while approving a new voting requirement for registered voters who move ...

LDF Files an Amicus Brief in Support of Justice Bernette Johnson’s Contested Ascent to Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court

Justice Johnson Would be the Court’s First African-American Chief Justice New York, New York—The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed a friend of the court brief in Chisom v. Jindal, in support ...

Outpouring of Support for College Diversity Seen Today in Supreme Court Case. NAACP Legal Defense Fund Among Wide Array of Groups that Weigh in

Today the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) is filing an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve ...

LDF Prevails in Louisiana School Desegregation Case

On July 12, 2012, the United States District Court of the Western District of Louisiana ruled in favor of LDF’s clients in Thomas v. St. Martin Parish School Board, denying the school board’s motions to ...

Banks gets life sentence for murder: Prisoner eligible for parole in 12 years

Source: Texarkana Gazette

Delma Banks, who was once sentenced to die for the 1980 murder of a Nash, Texas, teenager, accepted a sentence of life Wednesday, ending a case that has lingered in the court system for 32 ...

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