Wednesday, October 15, 2014 | news
Statement of Ryan P. Haygood, NAACP Legal Defense Fund Attorney Who Made Closing Arguments at Trial for Plaintiff-Intervenors “Today’s decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals allowing Texas’s intentionally discriminatory photo ID law to be used in the upcoming elections does not engage the overwhelming weight of the District Court’s factual findings. While the Fifth Circuit’s […]
Wednesday, August 29, 2018 | news
Todd Cox, Director of Policy at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., issued the following statement in response to the Senate confirmation yesterday of seven of President Trump’s district court nominees: “The seven judges confirmed yesterday will all sit on the federal bench for life, giving them the power to shape American jurisprudence […]
Friday, May 12, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. NAACP Legal Defense Fund Urges Missouri General Assembly to Oppose Proposed Enhanced Penalties for Crimes Against Law Enforcement The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter today to members of the Missouri General Assembly urging legislators to oppose late additions to S.B. 34 and H.B. […]
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), joined by co-counsel Gideon Carter of Baton Rouge, LA, filed a brief asking the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to reverse a July decision granting a Louisiana charter school’s motion to operate a virtually one-race school in the St. James Parish School District, which already […]
Monday, August 27, 2018 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted comments today on the Baltimore Police Department’s (BPD) 2019 Use of Force Draft Training Plan. In a letter to Kenneth Thompson, the court-appointed monitor of the consent decree between the BPD and the Department of Justice, LDF expressed significant concern “with the brevity and lack of detail” […]
Tuesday, January 10, 2017 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund updated its report in opposition to the nomination of Jeff Sessions to be Attorney General of the United States with documentary materials. LDF has engaged in an extensive, painstaking and thorough review of its vast archives, and updated the report that it released yesterday with attachments that […]
Monday, October 15, 2018 | news
NAACP Legal Defense Fund to Deliver Opening Statements in Trial to Determine Future of Race-Conscious Admissions at Harvard The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) will make opening statements today in a federal trial regarding a lawsuit that seeks to eliminate race from consideration in Harvard College admissions, threatening diversity at the school. Students for […]
Thursday, August 20, 2009 | case-update
(New Orleans, LA) – At a hearing before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity of the House Committee on Financial Services today, Matthew Colangelo, Director of LDF’s Economic Justice Group, testified that federal hurricane recovery funds have been distributed in a way that unfairly excludes African American families from returning to their homes in […]
Wednesday, August 19, 2015 | news
JOINT STATEMENT ON CHARGES ISSUED BY ST. LOUIS COUNTY AGAINST PROTESTERS ARRESTED LAST YEAR St. Louis County is marking the one-year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown by charging hundreds of people arrested by the St. Louis County Police in protest actions that occurred since August of 2014. The State Prosecuting Attorney has […]
Monday, May 24, 2010 | case-update
The Supreme Court unanimously rejects Chicago’s attempt to avoid accountability for hiring discrimination (New York, NY) — After years fighting for justice, qualified African-American job applicants will finally have a fair opportunity to land a job with the Chicago fire department. Today, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the City of Chicago can be held accountable for […]
