Wednesday, March 27, 2013 | news
Today, the Houston Chronicle published an editorial calling on the Harris County District Attorney and U.S. Senator John Cornyn to show leadership and demand a new, fair sentencing hearing for LDF client, Duane Buck. Read about it here.
Tuesday, September 7, 2021 | case-issue
Houston Area Urban League V. Abbott Challenging Texas Restrictive Voting Law Houston Area Urban League (HAUL) v. Abbott is a lawsuit challenging S.B. 1, a Texas law that greatly restricts access to voting. S.B. 1 includes several suppressive voting provisions that will make it much harder for Texans to vote and disenfranchise some altogether, particularly […]
Sunday, July 28, 2013 | case-update
In keeping with the bipartisan support that has characterized each reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act, including the most recent in 2006, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice has scheduled a hearing, “The Voting Rights Act after the Supreme Court’s Decision in Shelby County,” for Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. The hearing will take place […]
Wednesday, May 3, 2017 | news
The question of whether the rights of black voters are violated by the practice of at-large voting for judges in Terrebonne Parish is now fully in the hands of a federal judge, whose verdict is expected in August. Friday afternoon more than one hundred black men and women from Terrebonne Parish packed a third-floor courtroom […]
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 | news
Amid nationwide agitation to increase federal and state minimum wages and successful efforts to “ban the box” that requires job applicants to describe their criminal history, Johnathan Smith, Assistant Counsel of the Economic Justice Practice, and Madeline Neighly of National Employment Law Project pen an op-ed for msnbc.com. Honor Dr. King by helping people get work By […]
Monday, July 2, 2018 | scholarship-rec
Hon. David H. Coar served as a United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois for 16 years and as a United States Bankruptcy Judge for 8 years. He served as the first United States Bankruptcy Trustee in the Northern District of Illinois from 1979 to 1982. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Coar graduated from Syracuse […]
Wednesday, August 18, 2021 | page
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
Dickson County appeared to be an idyllic, rural community of rolling farmland in north-central Tennessee. But decades of toxic dumping at a landfill poisoned the groundwater, and left three generations of a local African-American family who live next to the landfill searching for justice. In 2007 LDF, along with co-counsel, began representing 11 members of […]
Thursday, January 5, 2012 | news
LDF, the National Urban League and the NAACP respond to a Wall Street Journal editorial criticizing the Justice Department challenge of South Carolina’s new voter ID law. Your editorial “Holder’s Racial Politics” (Dec. 30) criticizes Attorney General Eric Holder for the Department of Justice’s decision to reject a proposed South Carolina law that would have […]
