Friday, May 1, 2020 | news
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF),the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP) filed a federal lawsuit against Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, Secretary of State John Merrill, and others over the state’s lack of safe and accessible voting processes amid the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
Thursday, March 19, 2020 | news
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Greater Birmingham Ministries, the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, and the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP) sent Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill a letter urging him to develop guidance and administrative rules enabling every […]
Thursday, March 28, 2024 | news
Independent Monitor Ends Oversight of Upstart Network Amid Impasse and Offers Guidance for Fair Lending Oversight in Financial Services; Parties Warn of Risk of AI-Driven Bias in Consumer Lending March 27, 2024 | WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the civil rights law firm Relman Colfax announced that it had concluded its independent oversight of Upstart (NASDAQ: […]
Thursday, October 14, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Project Say Something, and the Alabama NAACP State Conference submitted testimony to the Alabama Department of Education (ALDOE) in opposition to the proposed codification of the Resolution Declaring the Preservation of Intellectual Freedom and Non-Discrimination— a vaguely worded, overly broad, and hastily implemented attack on […]
Monday, April 29, 2024 | news
The Legal Defense Fund, The Antiracism and Community Lawyering Practicum at Boston University School of Law, and the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, filed an amicus brief with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in support of a Black man named Derek Lee, who is serving a mandatory life without parole (LWOP) sentence for […]
Thursday, December 24, 2020 | news
This week, in Santa Cruz Lesbian and Gay Center v. Trump, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted a partial nationwide preliminary injunction enjoining President Trump’s anti-diversity Executive Order. The preliminary injunction covers Sections 4 and 5 of the Order, which sets out requirements for federal government contractors and federal grants, […]
Wednesday, July 8, 2015 | news
Senator Al Franken will be offering an amendment to the Every Child Achieves Act which will help protect students who are lesbian, gay and transgender (LGBT) from harassment and bullying. LDF has signed on to a letter with nearly 100 advocacy organizations in support of the amendment: July 7, 2015 Dear Senator: On behalf of the […]
Friday, August 15, 2025 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the NAACP, and Cooley LLP filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the petitioners in Carter v. United States and Rutherford v. United States, two cases where the Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s denial of sentencing reduction motions in a manner inconsistent […]
Thursday, September 27, 2012 | news
NYCDOE Never Validated Test; Blacks and Latinos Excluded from Elite Schools (New York, NY) Today, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), LatinoJustice PRLDEF and The Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College filed a federal civil rights complaint on behalf of a broad coalition of New York education, civil rights and social […]
Friday, August 22, 2014 | news
In the aftermath of the tragic death of Michael Brown, LDF and Dignity in Schools call for an end to criminalization of youth. LDF is a federal liaison for the Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC) an umbrella for 84 organizations from 22 states dedicated to reforming overly punitive discipline practices that disproportionately push students of […]
