NEW ORLEANS – In a win for the city’s public defenders and civil rights groups representing them, a state appeals court has ordered the City of New Orleans to comply with a public records request for the locations of the city’s...

SAN DIEGO – A federal judge today blocked the Trump administration’s asylum ban from being applied to thousands of asylum seekers who were unlawfully prevented from accessing the U.S. asylum process before the ban was implemented...

Yesterday, November 13th, the Committee on House Administration’s Election Subcommittee released a scathing, 144-page report entitled, “Voting Rights and Election Administration in the United States of America." The following...

Public Funds Public Schools (PFPS) has filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief in federal appellate court in Carson v. Makin, a case challenging the State of Maine’s decision not to use public education funding to pay...

LOUISIANA – Louisiana is failing to meet its obligation to provide mental health services to Medicaid-eligible children and families in the state, forcing thousands to unnecessarily cycle in and out of hospitals and psychiatric...

CHARLESTON, S.C. – The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of South Carolina, Terrell Marshall Law Group PLLC, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center filed a federal lawsuit today...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) will commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Civil Rights Memorial with a special two-day event in November. The Civil Rights Memorial , dedicated by the SPLC on Nov. 5,...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Friday, October 18th, the U.S. District Court issued a ruling on a motion for preliminary injunction of Florida Senate Bill 7066 (SB 7066). The following statement is by Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director for...

Washington, D.C. - Today a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia heard oral arguments in two cases concerning the Trump administration’s approval of Medicaid waiver projects, which among...

FLORIDA – The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission (MSD Commission) is made up of a group of political appointees who lack the expertise and diversity to competently fulfill its mission, and as a result...

NEW ORLEANS --The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in Ramos v. Louisiana, asking the court if the federal right to a unanimous jury verdict guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution applies to...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – In advance of a Monday hearing before a federal judge on a motion to halt implementation of SB 7066, the Southern Poverty Law Center released a video today explaining the ongoing impact of the law on the...