Advocates working to dismantle the School to Prison Pipeline are sending a strong message to federal policymakers about how to keep school safe without enhancing police presence This week the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational ...
(Washington, D.C.) Today, Debo P. Adegbile of the NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund, Inc. (LDF) presented oral argument on behalf of defendant-intervenors in the Supreme Court in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, one of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
