Friday, March 25, 2011 | news
(New York, New York) – On Tuesday March 29th oral argument will be presented before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Lewis v. Chicago, the ongoing litigation to secure justice for over 6,000 African-American firefighter applicants unfairly denied jobs with the Chicago Fire Department. The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, […]
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund celebrated its 70th anniversary at a National Archives event June 21, with President and Director-Counsel John Payton calling the fund the nation’s “first civil rights firm.” Payton became the fund’s sixth director-counsel in 2008, following in the footsteps of Thurgood Marshall, Jack Greenberg and Elaine Jones among others. […]
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 | news
Schnapper began his legal career, not in employment law but in civil rights. The first appellate brief he worked on was for Bobby Seale, one of the "Chicago 7" defendants accused of inciting riots at the Chicago Democratic convention in 1968. Schnapper was a lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund from 1969 […]
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 | news
(New York, NY) – Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered rehearing in a case challenging Washington State’s racially discriminatory law that denies the vote to people with felony convictions. A panel of eleven judges will reconsider this important civil rights case. In the earlier ruling in Farrakhan v. Gregoire, a three-judge panel […]
Thursday, April 29, 2010 | case-update
(New York, NY) – Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered rehearing in a case challenging Washington State’s racially discriminatory law that denies the vote to people with felony convictions. A panel of eleven judges will reconsider this important civil rights case. In the earlier ruling in Farrakhan v. Gregoire, a three-judge panel of the […]
Friday, October 29, 2010 | case-update
Yesterday the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to consider LDF’s Amicus brief regading the significance of the term “boy” in the workplace, in the case Hithon v Tyson Foods, Inc.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 | news
The New York Court of Appeals today declined to hear plaintiffs’ direct appeal in Little v. LATFOR, a lawsuit challenging New York’s law ending prison-based gerrymandering. The plaintiffs — who include upstate elected officials who would no longer unjustly benefit from claiming incarcerated people as residents of their districts — had sought to skip the […]
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 | news
The NAACP has been collecting information about early voting advocacy by black churches in Florida, hoping to convince the Justice Department to strike down a slew of new state voting laws it claims are intended to thwart growing minority participation at the polls ahead of next year’s presidential election. In a report released Monday, the […]
Thursday, February 3, 2011 | news
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday questioned whether a key component of the landmark Voting Rights Act is outdated, expressing skepticism about using evidence of racial discrimination from 40 or 50 years ago to justify continued election monitoring for a group of mostly Southern states. “We’re now looking at a situation where that information […]
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 | news
The court heard argument Tuesday in a dispute between wireless provider AT&T Mobility and a California couple who objected to being charged around $30 in sales tax for what they were told was a free cell phone. Like many such contracts, the fine print of the agreement between AT&T and Liza and Vincent Concepcion calls […]
