Sunday, January 22, 2017 | news
On January 21, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) staff and attorneys attended the Women’s Marches in New York City and Washington, D.C., proudly joining the international community in marching in support of the principles of equality and justice that power our collective dream of a better America for all. We will continue to […]
Wednesday, December 28, 2016 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA), Alabama’s department of motor vehicles, entered an agreement that fully restores the hours of driver’s license issuing offices in nine predominately African-American counties in the “Black Belt.” In addition, for the next two years, the agreement […]
Tuesday, August 27, 2013 | case-update
Corpus Christi, Texas—The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund (LDF) and its co-counsel law firm Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr LLP (WilmerHale) filed a motion to join the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit as plaintiff-intervenors against Texas’s racially discriminatory photo ID law, Senate Bill 14. The motion was filed on behalf of the Texas League of […]
Tuesday, December 1, 2020 | news
Agreement Marks New Standard for Fair Lending Oversight in Financial Technology Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) announced that they have entered into an agreement with Upstart Network, Inc. under which the parties will collaborate on a review of Upstart’s fair lending outcomes and […]
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 | news
On January 5, 2015, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) submitted a letter to Judge Maura McShane, the Presiding Judge of the 21st Judicial Circuit in Missouri, requesting that the court conduct an appropriate and thorough investigation of the grand jury proceedings that resulted in the non-indictment of former Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren […]
Tuesday, January 10, 2017 | news
Ahead of the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Senator Jeff Sessions’ nomination to be the U.S. Attorney General, Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, issued the following statement: “The Senate Judiciary Committee has the important charge of determining whether Senator Jeff Sessions is truly qualified to serve as […]
Friday, March 1, 2013 | case-update
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted a friend-of-the-court brieftoday to the United States Supreme Court in United States v. Windsor asking the Court to hold the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional. LDF’s brief urges the Court to apply heightened scrutiny to the law because it intentionally relegates gays and lesbians to inferior social status. […]
Monday, September 3, 2012 | case-update
(New York, NY) The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted a friend-of-the-court briefon Friday, September 7, 2012, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Windsor v. United Statesasking the court to hold the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional. LDF’s brief urges the court to apply heightened scrutiny to the […]
Friday, September 15, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. NAACP LDF Statement on Justice Department Scaling Back Key Policing Reform Initiative Today, Attorney General Sessions announced that he is scaling back the technical assistance and support the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) Collaborative Reform Initiative provides to law enforcement agencies that request it. Most alarmingly, […]
Tuesday, May 2, 2017 | news
Read the PDF version of our statement here. Today, former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager pled guilty to violating the civil rights of Walter Scott, an unarmed Black man, who Mr. Slager fatally shot during a routine traffic stop. Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., issued the […]
