Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed a suit in federal court today against election officials in Waller County, Texas, who have refused to provide any early voting location on the campus of Prairie View A&M University, a historically black university, during the first week of voting that starts today. In general, […]
Thursday, March 25, 2010 | case-update
(New York, NY) – On Friday, March 12, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin.This case is the first federal litigation challenging the use of race in university admissions […]
Friday, November 9, 2018 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today filed a complaint in federal court on behalf of four Black college students who were unlawfully denied their right to vote in Tuesday’s election in Alabama. The complaint is against Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill and election officials in Madison County, Alabama. “Nothing is […]
Thursday, March 5, 2009 | case-update
(New York, NY) – Today the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) filed a friend of the court brief in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal’s claim of racial discrimination in the selection of the jury for his 1981 death penalty trial. LDF’s brief supports Mr. Abu-Jamal’s request for United States Supreme Court review of his […]
Thursday, April 15, 2010 | case-update
(New York, NY) – On Monday, April 13th, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) filed a friend of the court brief in federal district court in Austin, Texas in the case of Fisher v. Texas. This case represents the first federal challenge to the use of race in a university admissions process since the Supreme […]
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 | case-update
New York, New York—The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed a friend of the court brief in Chisom v. Jindal, in support of claims that Justice Bernette Johnson is next in line to succeed the current chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, becoming the first African-American chief justice.
Thursday, June 1, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. NAACP Legal Defense Fund Files Amicus Brief in Key Texas Voting Rights Case First “Bail-In” Challenge Since Shelby Decision The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday, arguing that a federal trial court was correct […]
Monday, May 8, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. NAACP Legal Defense Fund Expresses Concern About Trump Administration’s Nominees to Federal Bench Today’s announcement by the Trump Administration of 10 federal judicial nominees should sound the alarm for anyone who cares about the integrity and independence of the federal courts. Many of these nominations were made without […]
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 | case-update
(Washington, DC) – The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) welcomes a Senate hearing today on “Ending the School to Prison Pipeline.” The hearing, before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, is the first Congressional hearing to examine school discipline. LDF will submit written testimony on this […]
Friday, November 2, 2018 | news
BOSTON – The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) made closing statements today in the federal trial that seeks to eliminate race as one of many factors used in Harvard’s holistic admissions process, threatening diversity at the college. “Harvard’s diversity puts students in an environment where people of different backgrounds stop being faceless […]
