Friday, March 30, 2018 | staff
Chris Kemmitt is Director of Litigation at the Legal Defense Fund (LDF). As one of two Directors of Litigation, Chris co-leads the litigation department with Deuel Ross. He supervises LDF’s litigation efforts related to the criminal legal system and economic justice. Chris joined LDF in 2015 and has been a member of the litigation management […]
Tuesday, July 5, 2016 | news
LDF Senior Counsel Chris Kemmitt visited WPFW’s emPower Hour on June 30, 2016 to talk about the U.S. Supreme Court’s Utah v. Strieff decision and Justice Sotomayor’s dissent.
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
Chisom v. State of Louisiana Ensuring Black voters in Orleans Parish have an equal opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice to the Louisiana Supreme Court The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the law firm Cozen O’Connor, and Louisiana civil rights attorneys Ronald Wilson and William Quigley represent Ronald Chisom, Marie Bookman, and the Urban […]
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 | page
Justice in Public Safety Project Children Arrest Incidents Show the Barbarity of Policing Kids By John Guzman Communications Associate — Police Accountability Content Warning: This article contains descriptions of police violence against children. Source: Photo by Stephen Maturen via Getty Images Source: Photo by Stephen Maturen via Getty Images Law enforcement officers brutalize and criminalize […]
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 | news
The longest Samuel Johnson has ever been able to give up menthol cigarettes is three months. Every time he tries to quit, he said, that cool, minty flavor that first drew him and other African-American smokers to menthols lures him back. "Everybody has a habit and mine is smoking cigarettes," said Johnson, 20, standing outside […]
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 | news
Chicago will hire 111 bypassed black firefighters by March 2012 and pay at least $30 million in damages to some 6,000 others who will never get that chance, under a court order expected to be approved Wednesday by a federal judge. Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously agreed that African-American candidates did not wait […]
Monday, May 16, 2011 | news
CHICAGO — The City of Chicago must hire 111 black firefighter applicants who were passed over for jobs years ago and pay tens of millions of dollars in damages to about 6,000 other black candidates under a ruling issued on Friday by a federal appeals court. The decision from the United States Court of Appeals […]
Friday, January 14, 2011 | case-update
In January 2011, LDF filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Lewis v. City of Chicago. This is the latest round, following our unanimous victory in the Supreme Court, of our long-running litigation to secure justice for over 6,000 African-American applicants unfairly denied firefighter jobs with the Chicago Fire […]
Friday, October 5, 2012 | news
A coalition of educational and civil rights groups filed a federal complaint on Thursday saying that black and Hispanic students were disproportionately excluded from New York City’s most selective high schools because of a single-test admittance policy they say is racially discriminatory. The complaint, filed with the United States Education Department, seeks to have the policy found […]
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 | case-issue
Police Accountability Requires Transparency In Maryland, police misconduct investigations are sometimes closed, and officers cleared, because of inadequate investigations. If access is limited to certain types of complaints, they may be misclassified, hiding troubling conduct that the public has a right to know about. Currently, Maryland’s Public Information Act has been interpreted to block the release […]
