Wednesday, March 18, 2015 | news
The Lawyers Division of the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) New York Region held its 21st annual Edward Brodsky Legal Conference, on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at the Times Center in New York City. Each year, the Edward Brodsky Legal Conference brings together distinguished academics, journalists and policy experts to debate timely legal issues. This year’s theme was “The 50th Anniversary of […]
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 | page
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014 | news
New York, NY—Twelve legislative seats in the New York State Assembly and State Senate are currently vacant, depriving approximately 1.8 million New Yorkers, over 800,000 of whom are people of color, of their fundamental right to representation. Today, the New York Voting Rights Consortium, a group of leading local and national voting rights advocates, urged […]
Tuesday, November 2, 2021 | news
The New York Voting Rights Consortium, a group of leading local and national voting-rights advocates,[1] issues this statement in support of New York State ballot proposals 1, 3 and 4. In doing so, we recognize the critical opportunity these measures present in advancing the collective interests of BIPOC[2] community members and stakeholders. We support ballot […]
Tuesday, February 22, 2022 | news
Today, the New York Voting Rights Consortium, a non-partisan group of civil rights organizations, reiterated its support for the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York (NYVRA). The consortium, which includes the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, and the Center […]
Thursday, November 14, 2013 | news
The New York Times reported today on LDF’s arguments in the Fisher vs. University of Texas case on remand to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals following the Supreme Court’s decision this past June in which it declined to end the University’s race-conscious admissions plan and sent the case back to the lower court for further proceedings. Josh […]
Monday, May 13, 2013 | news
In an editorial, the New York Times highlighted the racism and injustice that permeate the death sentence of LDF client Duane Buck. Mr. Buck was sentence to death in a proceeding in which the jury was told he was dangerous because he was black. LDF represents Mr. Buck in his effort to obtain a […]
Thursday, January 27, 2011 | news
Fifteen years ago, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit flouted Supreme Court law when it struck down affirmative action at the University of Texas Law School. Last week, in an act of redemption, the appellate court upheld an admissions plan for undergraduates at the University of Texas at Austin that takes […]
Friday, September 6, 2013 | news
An editorial written by The New York Times this morning issues a blistering attack against the City’s practice of stop-and-arrests in public housing facilities. Recently, the Court granted class-certification in a lawsuit that LDF and co-counsel Legal Aid Society have brought on behalf of our clients who are stopped and arrested in their own homes. […]
Thursday, March 14, 2013 | news
A recent editorial spotlights how being too poor to hire a lawyer in a criminal felony case should not be a barrier to counsel; one must be provided freely by the jurisdiction as the Supreme Court ruled 50 years ago in Gideon v. Wainwright. However, jurisdistions have found ways to shirk this responsibility to the detriment of […]
