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Advocates Decry Biden Administration’s Appeal Fighting Order to Vaccinate Medically Vulnerable People in ICE Detention

August 24, 2021

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Yesterday, the Biden Administration took the surprising step of filing an appeal to a federal court order requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to vaccinate medically vulnerable people in...

SPLC: ICE Must Finally Close Irwin Detention Center

August 23, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Maura Finn, lead attorney with the SPLC’s Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative regarding continuing immigration detention operations at the...

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‘Cruel, Unfair and Racist’: Black immigrants whose fathers are U.S. citizens push to overturn law that keeps them from obtaining citizenship

August 20, 2021

Liz Vinson

Families, FL NAACP Sue to Have Florida Health Department Rule on School Mask Mandates Thrown Out

August 20, 2021

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Law Offices of Joshua Spector, P.A. filed a legal complaint challenging part of an Emergency Rule issued on August 6 by the Florida Department of...

Florida State Conference of NAACP, et al., v. Florida Department of Health (court order petition)

Children's Rights

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August 20, 2021

After the Florida Department of Health filed an emergency rule that barred school districts in the state from requiring students to wear masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Law Offices of Joshua Spector, P.A. filed a legal complaint.

The petition...

SPLC Reports Reveal Current Conditions of Racial Discrimination in Voting in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi

August 16, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a series of reports today revealing current, consistent, and well-documented racial discrimination in voting in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi as Congress...

The Southern Poverty Law Center and community partners file amicus brief to support tenant rights in Georgia eviction lawsuit

August 16, 2021

ATLANTA -- The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has filed an amicus brief in the Georgia Court of Appeals in Efficiency Lodge Inc. v. Neason. The case involves a landlord that sought to self-help evict some of its tenants...

Rights Advocates Seek Relief for Thousands of Asylum Seekers Left Behind by Biden Administration Wind-down of Remain in Mexico Policy

August 16, 2021

Los Angeles, CA – Immigration advocates filed an amended complaint in a class action lawsuit challenging the continuing effects of the “Remain in Mexico” policy on asylum-seeking individuals who remain stranded outside the United...

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Assault on the Ballot: Florida law makes it harder for grassroots organizations to assist historically disenfranchised voters

August 13, 2021

Esther Schrader

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Correcting Revisionist History: SPLC challenges more than 100 U.S. schools honoring Confederate leaders to change their names

August 13, 2021

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Advocates Decry Biden Administration’s Appeal Fighting Order to Vaccinate Medically Vulnerable People in ICE Detention

SPLC: ICE Must Finally Close Irwin Detention Center

‘Cruel, Unfair and Racist’: Black immigrants whose fathers are U.S. citizens push to overturn law that keeps them from obtaining citizenship

Families, FL NAACP Sue to Have Florida Health Department Rule on School Mask Mandates Thrown Out

Florida State Conference of NAACP, et al., v. Florida Department of Health (court order petition)

Date Filed

SPLC Reports Reveal Current Conditions of Racial Discrimination in Voting in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi

The Southern Poverty Law Center and community partners file amicus brief to support tenant rights in Georgia eviction lawsuit

Rights Advocates Seek Relief for Thousands of Asylum Seekers Left Behind by Biden Administration Wind-down of Remain in Mexico Policy

Assault on the Ballot: Florida law makes it harder for grassroots organizations to assist historically disenfranchised voters

Correcting Revisionist History: SPLC challenges more than 100 U.S. schools honoring Confederate leaders to change their names

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