Friday, October 8, 2021 | news
Today, plaintiffs represented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), co-counsel Loevy & Loevy, and the Initiative for a Just Society reached a settlement – subject to the approval by the probate court – with the city of Little Rock, Arkansas for monetary and non-monetary relief. This lawsuit was filed in June 2019 on […]
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 | news
Last year, the police department stopped more than 59,000 people in public housing. Fewer than 9,000 of the stops resulted in arrests, according to a recent City Council briefing. Maybe Britt’s grandson was just unlucky, but he doesn’t see it that way. Neither do Britt and a handful of city politicians, including Council Member Rosie […]
Wednesday, May 16, 2018 | page
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Monday, May 2, 2022 | news
Contacts Michelle Boykins, Advancing Justice – AAJC, 202-604-1760, Comrequests@advancingjustice-aajc.org Juan Martinez, Legal Defense Fund, media@naacpldf.org Lacy Crawford, Lawyers’ Committee, 202-558-7900, lcrawford@lawyerscommittee.org Andrea Dreier, North Carolina Justice Center, andrea@ncjustice.org Public and private universities have instituted race-conscious admissions policies to combat the race-based barriers that continue to pervade our society. Civil rights organizations the Legal Defense Fund […]
Monday, August 16, 2010 | case-update
(New York) – Today a federal court in Washington, DC, prevented Louisiana from continuing to utilize a discriminatory formula as part of the federally-funded “Road Home” Program, which was designed by the Louisiana Recovery Authority and approved by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) to aid homeowners in their efforts to rebuild […]
Tuesday, August 8, 2023 | news
LDF Tribute to Charles Ogletree The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is deeply saddened at the passing of former Board member Charles J. Ogletree Jr. A renowned professor of law at Harvard Law School, Professor Ogletree, affectionately known as “Tree,” was an outspoken expert and activist on civil rights, particularly with respect to public education, criminal […]
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 | case-update
(New York) — On September 17, 2008, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals granted relief to Herbert Williams, an NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund (LDF) client sentenced to death nearly 20 years ago. Holland & Knight LLP served as co-counsel in the case, and former LDF Assistant Counsel, Miriam Gohara, argued the case. The […]
Thursday, July 4, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), joined the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and 56 of the nation’s premier civil rights organizations as amici curiae in Botstock v. Clayton County, Georgia and two companion cases that the Supreme Court will consider in its next term, […]
Friday, April 8, 2005 | case-update
Case Combats Inner-City Segregation and Poverty The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has joined the ACLU of Maryland as co-counsel in Thompson v. HUD. They are representing African Americans in a Baltimore case with far-reaching implications about the concentration of Blacks in public housing in urban centers across America. The ACLU of […]
Monday, December 9, 2024 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) joined partners across the civil and human rights movement to call on President Biden to use his remaining time in office to commute the sentences of all 40 individuals on federal death row. The federal death penalty suffers from the same irreparable failures that are endemic to the death […]
