NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., AARP, et al.
Amici Curiae
Debo P. Adegbile, Counsel of Record The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., and AARP are joined in this brief by seven other civil rights groups. Debo P. Adegbile is associate director-counsel and director of litigation at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Respondents as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on March 1, 2011. Title VII jurisprudence has consistently recognized that class treatment of claims alleging pervasive and system-wide discrimination is often the best, and sometimes the only, way to ensure effective resolution of claims…
