Monday, June 17, 2013 | case-update
A federal district court preliminarily 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. As part of the settlement Wet Seal has agreed to make numerous changes to address the discrimination charges brought by […]
Monday, June 17, 2013 | news
Court Approval Means Key Changes of Company’s Practices and Awards to Black Managers A federal district court preliminarily 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. As part of the settlement […]
Thursday, July 10, 2025 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. CONCORD, N.H. — A federal court in New Hampshire today blocked President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship and certified a nationwide class that protects the citizenship rights of all children born on U.S. soil. The case is Barbara v. Donald J. Trump. The ruling stems from a […]
Monday, February 10, 2025 | news
CONTACT: Inga Sarda-Sorensen, ACLU, 347-514-3984, isarda-sorensen@aclu.org Ari Mischik, ACLU of New Hampshire, ariana@aclu-nh.org Kate Lagreca, ACLU of Massachusetts, media@aclum.org Samuel Crankshaw, ACLU of Maine, scrankshaw@aclumaine.org Niketa Kumar, Asian Law Caucus, media@asianlawcaucus.org Marion Steinfels, SDDF, press@statedemocracydefenders.org Troi Barnes, Legal Defense Fund, media@naacpldf.org Yatziri Tovar, Make the Road NY, yatziri.tovar@maketheroadny.org Juan Proaño, LULAC, jproano@lulac.org […]
Monday, May 25, 2020 | news
A federal court today blocked a South Carolina requirement that forced people who vote absentee to obtain a witness signature. The ruling, which applies to the June primary, makes it safer for South Carolinians to vote during the COVID-19 pandemic. The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of South Carolina, and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational […]
Monday, June 6, 2022 | news
BATON ROUGE, LA – Today, a federal judge in Robinson v. Ardoin ruled in favor of Black voters challenging Louisiana’s newly enacted congressional map as a violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The decision came after a week-long hearing in which Black Louisianians and civil rights groups presented their case […]
Thursday, April 24, 2025 | news
Today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a preliminary injunction blocking the enforcement of a certification requirement from the U.S. Department of Education that threatens schools with a loss of federal funding based on harmful misinterpretations of civil rights laws, threatening Black students’ equal access to a quality education. On April […]
Thursday, August 30, 2012 | news
Statement of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which represents the Texas League of Young Voters Education Fund and Black college students at Prairie View A&M and Texas Southern Universities who have intervened in the case: Ryan Haygood, Director of Political Participation Group at NAACP Legal Defense Fund, said: “The Court today recognized that Texas’s restrictive […]
Thursday, August 30, 2012 | case-update
“The Court today recognized that the Texas’s restrictive photo identification measure would harm minority voters. Texas adopted its measure in the face of a population explosion of people of color. In the past 10 years, Texas’ population has grown by 4 million people, 90 percent of which is attributable to minority growth. The increase in […]
Monday, January 24, 2022 | news
A federal court today struck down Alabama’s newly drawn congressional map. As a result of the preliminary injunction, the state Legislature must draft a new congressional map that complies with the Voting Rights Act by including two districts where Black voters have the opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. The ruling was issued by […]
