Friday, August 10, 2018 | news
Related Case or Issue: Davis v. City of New York Court Orders NYPD to Film All Citizen Encounters with Body Cameras Order Calls for Pilot Program to Study Effectiveness of Filming All Encounters Late yesterday, a federal court ordered the NYPD to begin using body-worn cameras to film all police-citizen investigative encounters – including low level […]
Thursday, July 19, 2018 | news
Related Case or Issue: Davis v. City of New York Court Orders NYPD to Electronically Record All Citizen Encounters Order Calls for Pilot Program to Study Effectiveness of Documenting All Encounters Today, a federal court ordered the NYPD to begin recording all police-citizen investigative encounters – including low level interactions – as part of a pilot […]
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 | case-update
Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Gottschall granted an emergency motion to protect the rights of a class of approximately 6,000 African-American firefighter applicants who recently won a long-pending race discrimination case, Lewis v. City of Chicago. To address a significant mailing error by the City of Chicago, Judge Gottschall extended key deadlines in the process […]
Friday, May 13, 2011 | news
(New York, New York) – This morning, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled in favor of a class of over 6,000 qualified African-American firefighter applicants who were unfairly denied the opportunity to work for the Chicago Fire Department. Last Spring, after over a decade of litigation, the NAACP Legal Defense & […]
Friday, May 13, 2011 | case-update
This morning, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled in favor of a class of over 6,000 qualified African-American firefighter applicants who were unfairly denied the opportunity to work for the Chicago Fire Department. Last Spring, after over a decade of litigation, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and […]
Friday, July 1, 2011 | case-update
(New York, NY) — Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit struck down a Michigan ballot initiative that unconstitutionally limited access to opportunity at the state’s public universities and in other contexts. Passed in 2006 and commonly known as “Proposal 2,” the initiative was a deliberate effort to prohibit precisely the types of […]
Thursday, July 22, 2010 | case-update
In a July 2010 opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld some key aspects of North Carolina’s program to remedy discrimination in the construction industry. “This ruling upholds critical parts of the state’s Minority and Women Owned Business Program, which was designed to promote fair competition for public contracts in response […]
Friday, July 9, 2010 | case-update
On July 19, 2010, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted LDF’s motion to participate in oral argument as a friend of the court.
Thursday, July 29, 2021 | news
Today, community organizations, attorneys behind the class-action lawsuits that challenged the New York City Police Department (NYPD)’s stop-and-frisk and trespass-enforcement practices, and elected officials rallied at One Police Plaza to demand an end to the NYPD’s unconstitutional stop-and-frisk abuses. Lawyers for the plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit that challenged the NYPD’s racially discriminatory and unconstitutional […]
Tuesday, October 22, 2024 | news
Today at 2 p.m., a federal district court in New Orleans will hear arguments on a motion to remove all children and faculty from Fifth Ward Elementary School in a desegregation case against the St. John the Baptist Parish School Board. The school is in the U.S. Census tract with the highest risk of cancer […]
