Thursday, December 5, 2019 | news
On Wednesday, a federal district court gave final approval to a settlement resolving a lawsuit that challenged Target Corporation’s discriminatory criminal background screening policy. The class action lawsuit was filed by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the law firm of Outten & Golden LLP in the Southern District of New […]
Wednesday, November 25, 2020 | news
Today, a Kentucky district court denied a motion to dismiss an ongoing lawsuit against the City of Louisville, Kentucky, for the Louisville Metro Police Department’s (LMPD) repeated use of military-type force and intimidation in response to peaceful protesters demonstrating against police violence. The lawsuit, filed by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), […]
Friday, April 1, 2022 | news
Contacts: NAACP Legal Defense Fund Juan Martinez, media@naacpldf.org,212-965-2200 Asian Americans Advancing Justice|AAJC Michelle Boykins, mboykins@advancingjustice-aajc.org, 202-604-1760 Vivin Qiang, vqiang@advancingjustice-aajc.org, 202-780-9327 LatinoJustice PRLDEF Sarai Bejarano, sbejarano@latinojustice.org, 212-739-7581 Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit stayed an earlier decision by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia enjoining the race-neutral admissions […]
Wednesday, January 6, 2010 | case-update
Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that Washington State’s law denying the vote to people with felony convictions is racially discriminatory and violates the Voting Rights Act (VRA). “This significant ruling recognizes that racial discrimination in Washington’s criminal justice system has infected the State’s political process,” said John Payton, LDF Director-Counsel. “The result […]
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 | news
Yesterday, a three-judge panel from the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that Black homeowners and residents who have been impacted by the city of Cleveland’s discriminatory water billing policies may continue their federal class action lawsuit claiming discrimination under the Fair Housing Act. The lawsuit, brought by the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), Covington […]
Tuesday, May 23, 2023 | news
Today, a federal appeals court reversed a lower court ruling in Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board, holding that a new admissions policy which created more equal access for Black, Latinx, and underserved Asian American students at the Fairfax, VA high school is in fact constitutional. Today’s decision by the U.S. Court of […]
Monday, December 2, 2013 | news
On Tuesday, December 3, Natasha Korgaonkar, assistant counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Political Participation Group, and Sarah Brannon, attorney for co-counsel Project Vote, will present oral argument before a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that Louisiana has violated the National Voter Registration Act by failing to provide mandatory voter registration […]
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 | news
ATLANTA — A federal appeals court hearing in a case that may enable hundreds of thousands of Floridians to register to vote in time for the November election concluded today after two hours of oral argument. The case concerns Senate Bill 7066, signed into law by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2019. Senate Bill 7066 made voting […]
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 | case-update
On Tuesday, December 3, Natasha Korgaonkar, assistant counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Political Participation Group, and Sarah Brannon, attorney for co-counsel Project Vote, presented oral argument before a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that Louisiana has violated the National Voter Registration Act by failing to provide mandatory voter registration opportunities to […]
Wednesday, February 19, 2020 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. A federal appeals court upheld a ruling blocking a Florida law that created wealth-based hurdles to voting and significantly curtailed Florida’s Voting Restoration Amendment, also known as Amendment 4, which sought to end lifetime disenfranchisement and automatically restore voting rights to 1.4 million Floridians. The law would have […]
