Thursday, April 9, 2015 | news
The appalling video showing the hideous attack on Walter Scott by North Charleston, South Carolina police officer Michael T. Slager must spur everyone who values human rights and justice to demand an end to racial bias and excessive force in policing. This new video, as well as others that we have seen from around the […]
Friday, December 16, 2011 | news
Mumia Abu-Jamal’s journey through the American death penalty system began on December 9, 1981, when he was arrested and charged with capital murder in the shooting death of a police officer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Six months later, he was tried, convicted and sentenced to death for this crime. In the years that followed, Abu-Jamal’s case […]
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 | news
(New York, NY) –The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has unanimously declared that Mumia Abu-Jamal’s death sentence is unconstitutional. In today’s decision, the Court of Appeals reaffirmed its 2008 finding that Mr. Abu-Jamal’s sentencing jury was misled about the process for considering evidence supporting a life sentence. The Court found that, […]
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 | case-update
The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has unanimously declared that Mumia Abu-Jamal’s death sentence is unconstitutional. In today’s decision, the Court of Appeals reaffirmed its 2008 finding that Mr. Abu-Jamal’s sentencing jury was misled about the process for considering evidence supporting a life sentence. The Court found that, in violation of the […]
Friday, March 29, 2019 | news
LDF, ACLU, NYCLU, and LatinoJustice PRLDEF File a Request for Pre-Motion Conference to Allow Students and Advocacy Groups to Join the Defense of Efforts to Improve Racial Equity at Specialized High Schools Public school students and local community-based organizations asked a federal court to allow them to join a legal effort to improve racial and […]
Tuesday, August 22, 2023 | news
Today, a multi-racial group of students, families, and alumni of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ) denounced a petition filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation, a conservative legal advocacy group, on behalf of plaintiff Coalition for TJ, asking the Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court’s ruling that a 2020 race-neutral […]
Friday, August 20, 2010 | news
NEW ORLEANS — Five years after Hurricane Katrina destroyed more than 200,000 Louisiana homes, the state program established to help families rebuild still hasn’t paid out more than three-quarters of a billion dollars and has come under fire from a federal judge for discriminating against black homeowners. The Road Home program, which state officials developed […]
Tuesday, September 1, 2015 | news
In Louisiana parish, a fight for black voting rights In Louisiana parish, a fight for black voting rights, MSNBC reports that Terrebonne Parish has never elected a black judge, even though one in five parish residents is African-American, and that the Parish re-elected a white parish judge who had been suspended for wearing black-face as […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
Click here to read LDF’s amicus brief. Mount Holly v. Mount Holly Gardens Citizens in Action, Inc., which the Supreme Court agreed to hear in 2013, would have tested whether our nation’s commitment to ensuring that all families have a fair opportunity to find a good place to call home will continue. In Mount Holly, the Court would […]
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 | case-update
Today, LDF’s motion to intervene was granted in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, a case in which Shelby County is seeking to invalidate the core Section 5 preclearance provision of the Voting Rights Act. LDF has intervened on behalf of African-American residents of the county whose voting rights are directly impacted by the suit. Widely regarded […]
