Wednesday, May 22, 2013 | news
Fayette County, Georgia—Today, in an important voting case, a federal court struck down, as violative of the Voting Rights Act, Fayette County’s discriminatory at-large method of electing members to the County Board of Commissioners and County Board of Education. In the case, Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, et al. v. Fayette County Board of […]
Monday, August 16, 2010 | news
(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 […]
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 | news
(New York) – Today the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued an injunction protecting funds from the Road Home Program so that displaced homeowners can have an opportunity to show that Louisiana and HUD have distributed recovery funds in a discriminatory manner. The Road Home program is an $11 billion […]
Tuesday, November 29, 2022 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) announced that Tona Boyd, who most recently served as Special Counsel and Special Assistant to the President in the White House Counsel’s Office in the Biden-Harris Administration, where she worked to advance President Biden’s agenda related to racial justice, equity, and judicial nominations, has been named Associate Director-Counsel for the […]
Wednesday, March 25, 2015 | news
Today, in a 5-4 decision, written by Justice Breyer, the U.S. Supreme Court rekindled a voting rights suit against the state of Alabama involving the use of race in a 2012 redistricting plan. Specifically, the Court remanded a pair of cases to a district court to make a specific district-by-district determination about whether a Republican-drawn […]
Wednesday, July 12, 2017 | news
LDF Welcomes Senate Bill to Shut Down President’s Election Integrity Commission Earlier today, a diverse group of Senators led by Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced the Anti-Voter Suppression Act, which would repeal President Trump’s May 11 executive order that created an “election integrity” commission. That commission was formed with the stated purpose of investigating voter fraud […]
Saturday, September 5, 2015 | news
Samantha Erskine joins the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) in its New York office as Senior Director of Development. Samantha’s expertise includes managing a large portfolio of cross-sector corporate and foundation partnerships, executing successful fundraising events, writing compelling fundraising communications, and cultivating and stewarding individual donors. Prior to LDF, Samantha worked at the […]
Friday, November 17, 2023 | news
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Education released the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), an essential tool to monitor and enforce compliance with civil rights law in K-12 schools. Civil rights organizations and community-based education advocates have long awaited the release of this year’s data collection, which provides school systems and the public with key data and […]
Thursday, October 10, 2013 | news
We are thrilled to announce that Kevin Keenan will join LDF as Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel after serving as the executive director of the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties for eights years. During his time in San Diego, Mr. Keenan helped grow the ACLU affiliate’s size, community engagement, breadth of advocacy and […]
Monday, July 10, 2017 | news
LDF Welcomes New CFPB Rule to Protect Consumers from Predatory Financial Products Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalized a new rule that will empower consumers to challenge fraudulent and predatory financial products in court. The proposed rule would restrict the financial industry’s use of forced arbitration to dismantle class action lawsuits, a practice […]
