LA Times: Consumers’ right to file class actions is in danger

It hasn't gotten a lot of press, but a case involving AT&T that goes before the U.S. Supreme Court next week has sweeping ramifications for potentially millions of consumers. If a majority of the nine ...

NYT: Katrina’s Unfinished Business

New Orleans is finally rebounding from much of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. But five years later, a big problem remains: blighted neighborhoods. To attract a vibrant middle class, these neighborhoods need to be ...

Equal Rights Legal Giant to Receive Thurgood Marshall Award

Elaine R. Jones, retired president and director-counsel emeritus of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF) and Howard University alumna, has been named the recipient of the American Bar Association’s 2011 Thurgood Marshall Award. ...

LDF Announces Availability of Scholarship Applications for the 2011-2012 Academic Year

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) Scholarship Programs announced today that they are accepting applications for the 2011-2012 academic year.  Applications and answers to frequently asked questions regarding the scholarship programs and the ...

Washington Post: Voter fraud fears become the latest partisan issue

On Election Day, voters standing in line to cast their ballots in Harris County, Tex., will be treated to a cool drink courtesy of a group called "the lemonade brigade." But the group has another ...

Mother Jones: Block the Vote

In Houston, conservative poll watchers have been accused of hovering over early voters as they've tried to cast their ballots. The same complaints have surfaced in North Carolina's 13th Congressional District—home to Raleigh and other ...

Law.com: Prop 8 Amicus Brief Challenges 99-Year-Old Calif. Initiative Process

An appellate attorney in Oakland, Calif., has filed a brief before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that California’s same-sex marriage ban should be found invalid because the state’s entire ballot initiative process ...

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