Saturday, December 13, 2014 | news
Atlanta, Georgia–This week, LDF Assistant Counsel Leah Aden presented oral argument before a three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in defense of a successful Voting Rights Act lawsuit that required Fayette County, Georgia to conduct its elections for County Commission and School Board under a district-based plan. That win paved the way for Fayette County voters in the November 2014 elections to both lead the state of Georgia in voter […]
Friday, March 21, 2025 | case-issue
Case: Political Participation NAACP Fayette-Somerville Branch, et al. v. Fayette County, Tennessee, et al. Fighting for fair maps and representation in Fayette County. Filed: Feb. 27, 2025Resolved: July 7, 2025 What’s at stake? LDF and Donati Law, PLLC filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of five individual Black voters and the Fayette-Somerville Branch of the […]
Thursday, January 26, 2017 | news
Read the PDF version of our statement here. We do not need a federal investigation into a myth. The evidence is clear: there is no widespread in-person voter fraud. There is certainly no evidence of the breathtaking claim that three million illegal votes were cast. There is proven evidence, however, of voter suppression found by […]
Thursday, October 12, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. Muslim Advocates and NAACP LDF Urge Airlines to Institute Anti-Bias Training Letter to all Major Airlines Comes After Pregnant Muslim Woman Wrongfully Ejected from Flight Today, Muslim Advocates and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) sent a letter to major U.S. airlines calling for mandatory […]
Wednesday, May 11, 2016 | news
Since September 11, 2001, the unlawful profiling of airline passengers on the basis of race or religion has become disturbingly common. Within the past six months alone, eleven racial and religious profiling incidents have been reported, including five since April 1, 2016. Muslim Advocates and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) have […]
Thursday, April 9, 2015 | news
The appalling video showing the hideous attack on Walter Scott by North Charleston, South Carolina police officer Michael T. Slager must spur everyone who values human rights and justice to demand an end to racial bias and excessive force in policing. This new video, as well as others that we have seen from around the […]
Friday, December 16, 2011 | news
Mumia Abu-Jamal’s journey through the American death penalty system began on December 9, 1981, when he was arrested and charged with capital murder in the shooting death of a police officer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Six months later, he was tried, convicted and sentenced to death for this crime. In the years that followed, Abu-Jamal’s case […]
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 | news
(New York, NY) –The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has unanimously declared that Mumia Abu-Jamal’s death sentence is unconstitutional. In today’s decision, the Court of Appeals reaffirmed its 2008 finding that Mr. Abu-Jamal’s sentencing jury was misled about the process for considering evidence supporting a life sentence. The Court found that, […]
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 | case-update
The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has unanimously declared that Mumia Abu-Jamal’s death sentence is unconstitutional. In today’s decision, the Court of Appeals reaffirmed its 2008 finding that Mr. Abu-Jamal’s sentencing jury was misled about the process for considering evidence supporting a life sentence. The Court found that, in violation of the […]
Friday, March 29, 2019 | news
LDF, ACLU, NYCLU, and LatinoJustice PRLDEF File a Request for Pre-Motion Conference to Allow Students and Advocacy Groups to Join the Defense of Efforts to Improve Racial Equity at Specialized High Schools Public school students and local community-based organizations asked a federal court to allow them to join a legal effort to improve racial and […]
