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WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday questioned whether a key component of the landmark Voting Rights Act is outdated, expressing skepticism about using evidence of racial discrimination from 40 or 50 years ago to justify continued election monitoring for a group of mostly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 […]
Thursday, January 13, 2011 | news
BATON ROUGE — Louisiana departments aren’t complying with a federal law that requires public assistance agencies that serve low-income residents to offer them voter registration, a civil rights group said Wednesday. Lawyers representing the Louisiana State Conference of the NAACP sent a complaint letter to Secretary of State Tom Schedler, the Department of Children and […]
Monday, July 24, 2023 | staff
Anuja Thatte is a Senior Counsel in LDF’s DC office. Anuja is lead counsel in a litigation challenging an Alabama law that restricts the right of disabled, blind, and low literacy voters from receiving requested assistance with the absentee voting process. Among other representative matters, she has litigated incursions on the right to protest, the […]
Monday, November 1, 2021 | staff
Antonio L. Ingram II (@antonioingram) serves as Senior Counsel at the Legal Defense Fund, where he works on cases and matters that advance racial justice in educational equity and political participation. Mr. Ingram serves as lead counsel in Simon et al v. Ivey et al., challenging Alabama’s SB 129, prohibiting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in […]
Tuesday, September 23, 2025 | page
Anticipating Threats to Good Cause Eviction State preemption is fueling a racialized housing crisis, and Good Cause laws are at risk By Dr. Sandhya Kajeepeta SENIOR RESEARCHER and Statistician, THURGOOD MARSHALL INSTITUTE This publication was produced in partnership with the Local Solutions Support Center (LSSC). Protesters in Malden, MA demand an end to evictions on […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | board-of-directors
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 | case-update
Today, LDF won an injunction preventing the remainder of Road Home funds from being spent pending LDF’s appeal, which argues that the formula used to calculate grants was discriminatory. The State of Louisiana was ordered to freeze the funds until the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia decides whether the lower court […]
