Friday, May 6, 2011 | news
Appellate Court mandates further scrutiny of discrimination remedies for African-American and Hispanic school custodians in New York (New York, NY) Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued an order requiring a federal trial court to further review an agreement that settled an employment discrimination lawsuit against the New York City Board […]
Friday, May 6, 2011 | case-update
Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued an order requiring a federal trial court to further review an agreement that settled an employment discrimination lawsuit against the New York City Board of Education (the Board). The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) represents ten African-American and Hispanic public school […]
Tuesday, June 11, 2013 | news
George Wallace Fifty years ago this week, Alabama Governor George Wallace defiantly stood in the schoolhouse door at the and refused to admit Vivian Malone and James Hood because of their race. NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund (LDF) Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg and legendary LDF lawyer Constance Baker Motley represented the two young African American […]
Thursday, August 14, 2025 | news
CONTACT: Ella Wiley, media@aclu.org, 925-819-0555 Troi Barnes, tbarnes@naacpldf.org, 929-736-1528 NEW ORLEANS — In a victory for Black voters and democracy in Louisiana, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today affirmed in full the district court’s ruling that the state’s legislative maps violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The court agreed […]
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. Fifth Circuit Rejects Louisiana’s Attempt to Prematurely Appeal Voting Rights Decision Today, three judges of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Louisiana Governor and Attorney General’s attempt to delay a remedy process and prematurely appeal the liability decision against them in an important voting rights case […]
Tuesday, June 24, 2014 | case-update
On June 24, 2014, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in favor of LDF’s clients, African-American students in the St. Martin Parish school system. The court affirmed a lower court’s ruling denying the motions of the school board of St. Martin Parish, which claimed the long-standing Louisiana school desegregation case […]
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 | news
Today, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling that solidifies the rights of Black voters to have an equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice to the Louisiana Supreme Court. The ruling ensures that a longstanding Louisiana Supreme Court seat, which was created as a result of a 1992 consent decree and […]
Tuesday, June 30, 2020 | news
Yesterday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a trial court’s decision on a case challenging how judges are elected in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, ruling against Black residents who sought an opportunity to elect a judge of their choice to the trial court bench. Advocates who represented the residents in Terrebonne Parish Branch NAACP, Et […]
Thursday, November 6, 2014 | case-update
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Scott, et al. v. Schedler, et al., issued a ruling partially upholding a district court’s ruling after trial that Louisiana violated the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) by failing to properly provide voter registration services to its public assistance clients. Plaintiffs in the case, represented by the NAACP Legal […]
Thursday, September 28, 2023 | news
New Orleans, LA—Today, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a writ of mandamus to vacate the remedial hearing set for Oct. 3 – 5 in Robinson v. Ardoin, the challenge to Louisiana’s discriminatory congressional map. The District Court hearing to determine the new map is canceled, for now. This procedural writ does not overturn […]
