Tuesday, October 11, 2011 | news
Philadelphia (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal to get a new sentencing hearing for the killing of a Philadelphia police officer 30 years ago. The high court rejected a request from the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office to overturn the federal appeals court decision declaring the death […]
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 | news
Decision anxiously awaited in Supreme Court housing case “There is a huge divide that exists between us,” said Sherrilyn Ifill, the [President and Director-Counsel] of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund who was at the Supreme Court on Monday waiting for a possible decision. “Our country remains deeply segregated and we need not only […]
Thursday, April 23, 2015 | news
LDF Senior Policy Counsel for Criminal Justice and State Education Initiative Monique Dixon states: “…our call for police body worn cameras is a national call.” “…it’s clear from the lack of information that we have about Freddie Gray’s case that there is a need for body worn cameras to document interactions between police and civilians.”
Thursday, March 17, 2016 | news
Merrick Garland, Obama’s High Court Pick, Gives GOP a Headache Sherrilyn Ifill: GOP’s New Move to Delegitimize Obama As Ifill observes in the CNN article: Indeed, a majority of Americans want the Senate to give the President’s nominee a hearing, and despite their bluster, Republicans may find themselves out-maneuvered by President Obama’s exceedingly moderate choice. […]
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 | news
Clyde Murphy, an attorney who was a powerful advocate for the cause of social justice, died August 17 in Chicago. In his 35-year career in the law, he worked, first, at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, in New York, before becoming Executive Director of the Chicago office of the Lawyers Committee for Civil […]
Thursday, August 19, 2010 | news
Civil rights attorney sued Chicago for discriminating against African-American firefighter applicants Clyde E. Murphy, a crusading civil rights attorney who won a U.S. Supreme Court case that found Chicago discriminated against African-American firefighter applicants, died Tuesday, Aug. 17, his family said. Mr. Murphy, 62, died at Illinois Masonic Medical Center after a pulmonary embolism, his […]
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 | news
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn today signed into law a historic ban on the death penalty in Illinois and commuted the sentences of 15 death row inmates to life without parole. Quinn signed the legislation in his Capitol office surrounded by longtime opponents of capital punishment in a state where flaws in the process led […]
Thursday, May 9, 2013 | case-update
Wet Seal agreed to settle a national class action lawsuit filed by plaintiffs represented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) and co-counsel. Cogdell v. The Wet Seal, Inc. charged that former top executives atWet Seal directed senior managers to get rid of African-American store management employees for the sake of its “brand image,” and to […]
Thursday, May 9, 2013 | news
Company Agrees to Compensate Former Store Managers and Change Company Practices Wet Seal agreed to settle a national class action lawsuit filed by plaintiffs represented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) and co-counsel. Cogdell v. The Wet Seal, Inc. charged that former top executives at Wet Seal directed senior managers to get […]
Wednesday, August 21, 2024 | news
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 21, 2024 Troi Barnes, Legal Defense Fund, media@naacpldf.org Emily Berkowitz, ACLU National, media@aclu.org Keisha Williams, ACLU-NC, kmwilliams@acluofnc.org Gretchen Engel, The Center for Death Penalty Litigation, gretchen@cdpl.org RALEIGH, N.C. – Attorneys delivered closing arguments today in North Carolina v. Hasson Bacote, a landmark case filed under North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act […]
