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On Wednesday, my colleague Joshua Thompson argued on behalf of our client Edmund Lee, Jr., as Edmund fights to end discrimination in St. Louis. The Eighth Circuit panel (Judges Beam, Benton, and Colloton) were sympathetic to our argument that a policy which forbids black students in St. Louis county from attending the same schools as their white ne ...

Earlier this year, ten-year-old Edmund Lee, Jr., was reading about Rosa Parks, a great civil rights crusader in her time. Now Edmund is fighting for his own civil rights. Edmund and his mother La'Shieka, with the help of PLF, are battling a discriminatory St. Louis transfer program that prohibits black students --- and only black students --- in ...

Edmund Lee, Jr., a fourth-grade student in St. Louis, is smart, likable, hardworking, optimistic, and a big fan of the Carolina Panthers. None of these qualities mattered when Edmund sought to continue his education at Gateway Science Academy, an excellent charter school in the City of St. Louis, after he moved to a safer neighborhood in St. Lou ...

I'll be making a couple of radio appearances this weekend to talk about a couple of PLF's cases. First, I'll be discussing our fight to vindicate Edmund's equal protection rights on the Randy Tobler Show at 5:35 AM on Saturday morning. Tune in to find out what the district court did last Friday, and what Edmund's family plans to do next. Next, I'l ...

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The St. Louis transfer program allows students living in St. Louis County to attend magnet schools within city limits --- unless the student is black. The program made headlines recently when it threatened to banish third-grader Edmund Lee Jr. from Gateway Science Academy, the school he has attended his entire life. Today PLF is proud to stand wit ...

This morning, PLF will be announcing a major civil rights lawsuit from the steps of the federal courthouse in St. Louis. You can watch the press conference live here. Follow the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #StandWithEdmund. ...