Friday, January 29, 2010 | case-update
(New York, New York) Today, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the Legal Aid Society (LAS), and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (Paul Weiss) filed a class action lawsuit against the City of New York and the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) challenging the New York City Police Department’s reckless […]
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 | news
(New York, New York) Today, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the Legal Aid Society (LAS), and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (Paul Weiss) filed a class action lawsuit against the City of New York and the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) challenging the New York City Police Department’s […]
Friday, October 19, 2012 | news
Rachel Kleinman, Assistant Counsel of LDFs Education Group , discusses the complaint against the admissions policies at New York City Specialized High Schools in an interview on Intersect, a community forum found on Brooklyn Independent Television.
Thursday, November 14, 2013 | case-update
Yesterday, a proposed settlement agreement was filed in the U.S. District Court to resolve a long-running lawsuit that challenged the New York City Board of Education’s discriminatory policies for hiring public school custodians. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) represents ten African-American and Latino custodians who were denied permanent jobs and, instead, […]
Monday, March 7, 2011 | news
The NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk practice inside public housing has led to nine recent settlements, the Daily News has learned. In February, the city agreed to shell out more than $150,000 to nine of 16 plaintiffs in a lawsuit claiming they were illegally stopped on Housing Authority property because they were black or Hispanic, court documents […]
Friday, August 16, 2013 | news
Amid positive media coverage in the New York Daily News on LDF’s upcoming case Davis v. City of New York, a lawsuit which challenges the NYPD’s policy and practice of unlawfully stopping and arresting public housing residents and their guests for trespassing, Mayor Bloomberg suggested that residents of public housing should be “fingerprinted” before entering their […]
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 | news
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is debating a ban on menthol cigarettes as their slightly minty taste can cover up tobacco's harshness. That touched off a firestorm of debate within the African-American community. About 80 percent of black smokers prefer menthol cigarettes compared with 22 percent of white smokers. The civil rights group Congress […]
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 | news
A report shows that nearly 60 percent of Texas students were suspended or expelled between 7th and 12th grade, many of them multiple times. That can lead students to stay back a grade, drop out of school or get in trouble with the law. Is it time to reassess how schools deal with bad behavior? […]
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 | news
NPR Presents: Voting Rights Or Wrongs? North Carolina’s new voting law has been a hot topic of discussion—and litigation—this election year. The law reduced the number of early voting days, eliminated same-day registration during early voting, and did away with the counting of out-of-precinct ballots. In 2016, voter ID is scheduled to take effect. This […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
In 2006, just days after President Bush signed into law the bill reauthorizing core provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a small water district in Austin, Texas filed a federal lawsuit in Washington, D.C. challenging the preclearance provision known as Section 5 of the Act. Section 5 is widely regarded as the heart […]
