Class Action Against New York City Over NYPD Checkpoints Allowed To Continue

 MANHATTAN (CN) – Public housing residents can proceed with a class action lawsuit claiming that New York City and the New York City Housing Authority allowed the police to set up “checkpoints” that routinely violated ...

U.S. Sentencing Commission Approves Early-Release Possibility for Inmates Sentenced for Crack-Cocaine Offenses

A federal commission’s approval of new sentencing guidelines could result in significantly reduced sentences for as many as 12,000 federal inmates now serving time for crack-cocaine offenses. The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously Thursday to ...

Appellate Lawyer of the Week: John Payton

 The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund celebrated its 70th anniversary at a National Archives event June 21, with President and Director-Counsel John Payton calling the fund the nation’s “first civil rights firm.”  Payton became ...

LDF issues joint letter urging Attorney General to reject proposed changes to Florida’s Election Laws

[New York]–Today, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”), the Florida Conference of Black State Legislators, and the NAACP Florida State Conference issued a joint letter urging the Attorney General to reject proposed ...

D.C. Legal Aid Hires Chinh Le As New Legal Director

The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia announced today that it has hired long-time civil rights attorney Chinh Le as its new legal director. Le has led the civil rights division of the ...

Louisiana redistricting case seen as crucial test of Voting Rights Act

In a racially mixed corner of Shreveport, La., a small group of white voters protested loudly this year that they did not want to be part of a majority black district when the legislature redrew ...

More schools rethinking zero-tolerance discipline stand

Nearly two decades after a zero-tolerance culture took hold in American schools, a growing number of educators and elected leaders are scaling back discipline policies that led to lengthy suspensions and ousters for such mistakes ...

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