Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | news
NEW YORK – Today, a federal appeals court issued a decision in a lawsuit aiming to halt New York City’s attempts to make admissions to its selective public high schools fairer and more inclusive for the city’s diverse student population. The case, Christa McAuliffe Intermediate School PTO v. Bill de Blasio, began in 2019 and alleges […]
Friday, September 11, 2020 | news
Eleventh Circuit Upholds Florida Law That Bars Hundreds of Thousands of Floridians From Voting Solely Because They Lack Enough Money ATLANTA — A federal appeals court today upheld a Florida law that created wealth-based hurdles to voting. The decision denies voting rights to hundreds of thousands of people with past felony convictions. The case, Jones v. […]
Monday, December 3, 2012 | news
It’s just the latest problem to plague Wet Seal: The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has determined that the fashion retailer discriminated against a former African American store manager. The federal agency said that Nicole Cogdell, who once worked as a manager of a Wet Seal store in Pennsylvania, was “subjected to a hostile work environment and the […]
Friday, October 5, 2012 | case-update
Yesterday, a federal court rejected the City of New York’s and New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA)’s attempt to dismiss claims that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) is wrongfully stopping and arresting public housing residents and guests for trespassing. Instead, Judge Shira A. Scheindlin declared that Davis v. City of New York, the lawsuit […]
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 | news
The Fayette County Board of Education has agreed to settle its part of an NAACP lawsuit challenging the county’s voting process that the civil right group says has kept blacks from serving on the school board and county commission. Under the consent decree adopted by the school board Monday night, candidates for school board will […]
Monday, August 3, 2015 | case-update
Atlanta, Georgia — Today, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia granted a request filed by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and cooperating Georgia attorney, Neil Bradley, to have district-based voting as the voting method for the upcoming special election for the successor of late Fayette County Commissioner, Pota […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
Farrakhan v. Gregoire raises the question as to whether Washington State’s felon disfranchisement law violates Section 2 of the federal Voting Rights Act. Section 2 prohibits states from using any voting qualification that results in a denial of the right to vote on account of race or color. LDF and University Legal Assistance at Gonzaga University […]
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. Falsehoods on Voting Have Disastrous Consequences Statement of Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. “This administration continues to perpetuate a falsehood, a falsehood with disastrous consequences for both communities who fought and continue to face systemic disenfranchisement and widespread faith […]
Monday, February 18, 2013 | news
Once again, the most avid supporters of capital punishment in Texas should be pleased that a scheduled execution has been stopped, at least temporarily. The U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution Thursday of Duane Buck, the kind of person who, if you believe in capital punishment, fits the description of who should receive this most […]
Monday, August 24, 2015 | case-update
On Friday, August 21, lawyers for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), and cooperating Louisiana attorney, Ronald L. Wilson, filed papers in Terrebonne Parish Branch NAACP, et al. v. Jindal, et al., a challenge under the Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Constitution to Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana’s discriminatory voting method for the 32nd Judicial District Court (32nd JDC). On behalf of […]
