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 […]
Friday, August 16, 2013 | case-update
In this morning’s John Gambling radio show, Mayor Michael Bloomberg criticized Davis v. City of New York, a putative class action lawsuit filed by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) and co-counsel the Legal Aid Society on behalf of plaintiffs challenging the NYPD’s policy and practice of unlawfully stopping and arresting public housing […]
Wednesday, March 22, 2006 | case-update
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) heads to federal court in Baltimore to seek a remedy for unlawful discrimination against African-American public housing residents by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Theodore M. Shaw, LDF’s Director-Counsel and President, said: “We intend to secure a remedy that will help African-American […]
Thursday, February 27, 2025 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund and Donati Law, PLLC filed a lawsuit on behalf of 5 individual Black voters and the Fayette-Somerville Branch of the NAACP challenging a racially discriminatory electoral map in Fayette County, Tennessee. The lawsuit asserts that the Fayette County Commission map created during the 2021 redistricting process is racially discriminatory in […]
Sunday, August 27, 2023 | news
On Saturday, a white supremacist shot and killed three Black people in a targeted attack at a store in Jacksonville, Florida, before killing himself. Law enforcement officials said the assailant “hated Black people” and used a Glock gun and AR-15 rifle, one of which was painted with a swastika. LDF President & Director-Counsel Janai S. […]
Wednesday, January 3, 2024 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) has appointed Natalie Thigpen to serve as its Chief Communications and Marketing Officer (CCMO). Thigpen joins LDF from Summit Health and CityMD, where she was Senior Vice President for Culture, Engagement, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging and previously served as Vice President of Marketing & Communication. Thigpen’s vision, strategic counsel, […]
