Wednesday, December 11, 2013 | case-update
On Monday, December 9, 2013, a federal district court approved a $7.5 million settlement of a national class action lawsuit, which alleged that Wet Seal had a policy of denying equal pay and promotion opportunities and firing African-American store management employees, clearing the way for implementation of the injunctive relief and payments to the class […]
Monday, April 10, 2017 | case-update
Read a PDF of our statement here. A federal district court has found in Veasey v. Abbott that Texas bill SB 14 – the strictest photo ID law in the country – was enacted to purposefully discriminate against Black and Latino voters. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) first challenged and defeated the bill in 2012 […]
Monday, April 10, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. Today, a federal district court found in Veasey v. Abbott that Texas bill SB 14 – the strictest photo ID law in the country – was enacted to purposefully discriminate against Black and Latino voters. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) first challenged and defeated […]
Wednesday, August 16, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. Federal Court Finds Texas Intentionally Discriminated Against Hispanic Voters Late yesterday, a three-judge panel in the Western District of Texas unanimously ruled that the Texas Legislature intentionally deprived Hispanic voters in two Congressional districts of the ability to elect their candidates of choice. Federal judges had previously found that […]
Monday, July 19, 2010 | case-update
In June 2010, Plaintiffs filed a motion for a Preliminary Injunction against Louisiana to freeze surplus Road Home funds until the conclusion of litigation. Plaintiffs requested this so the surplus funds could be used to address the disparities in the program. If these funds are not preserved, Louisiana and HUD could reprogram the funds for […]
Tuesday, September 9, 2025 | news
Yesterday, the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina dismissed a lawsuit challenging South Carolina’s discriminatory censorship law, Budget Proviso 1.79, in the state’s K-12 public schools. The decision is a disappointing outcome for South Carolina students, educators, and school communities already affected by the proviso’s widespread restrictions on the teaching of certain […]
Thursday, April 6, 2017 | case-update
On April, 6 2017, a federal court denied a motion to dismiss a challenge to Alabama’s discriminatory voter ID law brought by plaintiffs represented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. The ruling comes in the case of Greater Birmingham Ministries v. Merrill, which LDF filed in the Northern District of Alabama in December of 2015 […]
Thursday, April 6, 2017 | news
A federal court today denied a motion to dismiss a challenge to Alabama’s discriminatory voter ID law brought by plaintiffs represented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. The ruling comes in the case of Greater Birmingham Ministries v. Merrill, which LDF filed in the Northern District of Alabama in December of 2015 […]
Thursday, August 14, 2025 | news
Yesterday, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama declined to issue a preliminary injunction to block the enforcement of Alabama’s discriminatory censorship law, SB 129, in the state’s public colleges and universities. The decision means that the law will remain in effect while the case moves forward — a disappointing outcome for […]
Thursday, January 2, 2014 | case-update
A federal district court preliminarily approved a settlement 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, relegated to provisional positions, in which […]
