Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
Case: Voting Rights Shelby County v. Holder The fight to protect preclearance and essential Voting Rights Act protections Supreme Court Oral Argument: February 27, 2013 Decision: June 25, 2013 Shelby County v. Holder is a seminal voting rights case that ultimately dismantled essential protections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). The case has […]
Monday, July 2, 2018 | scholarship-rec
Sheila Jackson Lee represented the 18th Congressional District of Texas in the United States House of Representatives. Since her election in 1994, she was become an influential voice in Washington, and was named by ‘Congressional Quarterly’ as one of the 50 most effective Members of Congress. Originally from Queens, New York, Rep. Jackson Lee earned […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
SETTLEMENT In January 2022, a final settlement agreement was reached in Sheff v. O’Neill. If the proposed settlement is approved by both a judge and the Connecticut State Legislature, it will result in a permanent injunction enforcing the key terms of a long-term Comprehensive Choice Plan (CCP) intended to redress the consequences of decades of […]
Monday, January 7, 2019 | ldf-events
Join us as we commemorate the filing of the landmark Sheff v. O’Neill school desegregation case with a community conversation on the history and future of educational equity in Connecticut and workshops highlighting the advocacy of Hartford parents and students. It’s been 30 years since a group of parents from Hartford and surrounding towns came […]
Wednesday, October 26, 2022 | case-issue
SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. University of North Carolina FAQ The Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Decision, Explained On June 29, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. University of North Carolina (UNC) and ruled in that the race-conscious admissions policies of Harvard and the University of North Carolina […]
Wednesday, September 8, 2021 | news
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued a decision in Ferguson v. McDonough, permitting Joseph Ferguson’s civil rights claims to proceed. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational and Fund, Inc. (LDF), working with Rights Behind Bars, represented Mr. Ferguson, who was tased without reason by a police officer in the middle of […]
Friday, February 21, 2025 | page
Policy Advocacy: Education Setting the Record Straight The U.S. Department of Education’s Anti-Opportunity “Dear Colleague Letter” What Schools, Parents and Students Need to Know Source: Shutterstock.com On Feb. 14, 2025, the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education (ED OCR) sent a “Dear Colleague” letter grossly misstating the law and threatening to […]
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 | news
Read the PDF of our joint statement here. Washington, DC, December 14 – The Senate Judiciary Questionnaire (SJQ) submitted by Sen. Jeff Sessions as a prerequisite for his confirmation hearing to become U.S. Attorney General lacks hundreds of entries that should have been included and is woefully inadequate in its current form, according to a number of organizations that have examined […]
Monday, January 30, 2017 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) closely monitored the confirmation hearings for Senator Jeff Sessions, nominee for U.S. Attorney General, and Betsy DeVos, nominee for Secretary of Education. Both hearings further demonstrated what the nominees’ records already showed: Senator Sessions is not prepared to lead in the enforcement of our nation’s civil […]
Thursday, December 22, 2016 | ldf-perspectives
By Kyle Barry Policy Counsel NAACP Legal Defense Fund With Senator Jeff Sessions’s Attorney General nomination set for a confirmation hearing next month, he and President-elect Trump’s transition team have tried to rebrand his image into one of civil rights hero, asserting, without evidence, that Sessions has a “strong civil rights record.” Yet throughout his entire […]
