In response to preliminary injunction granted today by a federal judge in Texas v. U.S., blocking the May 2016 guidance by the Obama administration interpreting Title IX to protect transgender students, the following statement is by David Dinielli, deputy legal director, Southern Poverty Law Center.
The SPLC, the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program and the law firm of Baker Donelson have asked a federal judge to certify its lawsuit against the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) as a class action, which would allow rulings in the case over the inadequate medical and mental health care of 43 prisoners named in the lawsuit to apply to the 25,000 people held in a prison system that has had one of the highest mortality rates in the country.
DHS and states should end private prison contracts.
The strangest presidential campaign is getting even stranger.
The Justice Department today delivered a damning indictment of the conduct of police in Baltimore – describing in great detail the nonstop, systematic harassment targeting the city’s black population.
The SPLC filed a federal civil rights complaint today over discipline and arrest policies in Alabama’s Dothan public schools that disproportionately push African Americans and students with disabilities out of school for minor misconduct.
The federal government has failed to release records under the Freedom of Information Act that would shed light on controversial – and potentially unconstitutional – immigration raids that took more than 100 women and children from their homes and placed them in a Texas detention center before deporting many of them, according to a lawsuit filed by the SPLC and Alston & Bird today to obtain the records.
On the anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a group of about 50 volunteers organized by SPLC on Campus conducted a voter registration drive in Alabama’s Russell and Lee counties,
Georgia is no longer illegally denying driver’s licenses to thousands of immigrants based on their past – rather than current – immigration status under a settlement agreement announced today to resolve a federal lawsuit by the SPLC and Atlanta immigration attorney Justin W. Chaney.
