Legal Advocacy & Impact Litigation

This civil rights complaint alleges continuing racial discrimination by employees of the Loleta Union School District including disparate treatment and harassment of Native American Students.

This complaint concerns the unlawful practice of thirteen Texas school districts forcing their most vulnerable students out of school through court procedures for truancy.

This complaint alleges Mira Loma High School discriminates against African American students through its racially hostile educational environment.

This lawsuit alleges that Riverside County, California, through its Probation office, targets, ensnares, and discriminates against children by stripping them of their constitutional rights.

This case was originally brought by 13 current and former foster children for housing instability.

NCYL won a major case in California, securing fair and equal treatment of foster youth who play high school sports. This victory could potentially affect thousands of foster youth in the state.

This lawsuit charged the defendants with causing serious harm to children in the child welfare system, and called for sweeping, system-wide reform on behalf of the more than 3,600 children in the legal custody of Clark County.

The suit challenged county and state agencies for neglecting their duties to provide necessary and legally mandated health care services to California’s foster children with mental health needs.

Bryan Independent School District's use of school resource officers to issue criminal sanctions for a range of minor student misbehavior unlawfully impacts African-American students, who are "cited" at a rate four times that of other students.