When the school board in Orange County, Florida, planned to sell property that was the site of a historic school for Black children in one of the country鈥檚 oldest Black communities, a local preservation association represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center filed suit against the school...
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During 2022, Florida established a 鈥淩elocation Program鈥� for the 鈥渢ransport of unauthorized aliens from the state.鈥� The Southern Poverty Law Center and its partners filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of聽...
The Southern Poverty Law Center and its allies filed an emergency lawsuit to ensure that nearly 1,000 absentee voters in Cobb County, Georgia, have enough time to cast their votes in the 2022 midterm elections.
The lawsuit, filed less than 48 hours before Election Day, seeks to send...
In July 2022, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards announced a plan to transfer dozens of incarcerated youths to the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola. The facility is the nation鈥檚 largest and has a longstanding record of human rights violations. It housed some 5,000 adult men, the...
The state of Florida in 2022 enacted House Bill 1557, commonly referred to as the 鈥淒on鈥檛 Say Gay鈥� law, which bans discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in grades K-3 and restricts such discussions for students through grade 12 based on undefined standards of appropriateness. The...
After a state commission moved a judgeship from a diverse Jefferson County community to majority-white Madison County, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the move.
The lawsuit was filed by...
As a lawsuit challenging Alabama鈥檚 congressional district map went before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Southern Poverty Law Center and its partners submitted an amicus brief urging the court to affirm a lower court decision that found the map deprived Black Alabamians of their right to elect...
In the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, Congress provided billions of dollars through the 鈥淩oad Home鈥� program for repair, rebuilding and other services to homeowners whose residences were destroyed or severely damaged.
In 2007, Iris Calogero and Margie Nell Randolph, both...
The Cobb County Board of Education in Georgia and state legislators used racial demographic information to 鈥減ack鈥� communities of color 鈥� particularly Black and Latinx voters 鈥� into three of seven school board voting districts to diminish their political power and preserve a white majority on the...
Alabama鈥檚 absentee ballot program is inaccessible to blind voters and voters with print disabilities. It requires those voters to secure another person鈥檚 assistance to complete their absentee ballot 鈥� forfeiting their right to vote privately and independently.
The 人兽性交 and its co-counsel...
