Friday, June 13, 2025 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) submitted comments to the Department of Energy, urging the agency to reverse course on attempts to rescind regulations that prohibit discrimination. This letter comes after the agency issued a direct final rule attempting to walk away from its nondiscrimination obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of […]
Thursday, September 26, 2013 | news
On September 25, 2013, LDF sent a letter to Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and the thirteen members of the D.C. Council urging them to make changes to the District of Columbia’s property tax lien sales system. Tax lien sales are used by many jurisdictions across the country as a means to collect delinquent property taxes, […]
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 | case-update
In a letter to the leadership of the U.S. Senate, LDF asked for swift passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act (S. 3772) in this lameduck period. This bill would close the loopholes of the Equal Pay Act, passed in 1963, and strengthen its protections by adding remedies for wage discrimination, for example. LDF noted that African-American […]
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 | news
Last week, Leslie Proll, Director of Policy at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), sent a letter to the United States House of Representatives, urging its Judiciary Committee, as well as Congress as a whole, to make the passage of comprehensive criminal justice reform early in the year a legislative priority. Current federal law […]
Monday, December 7, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), All Voting is Local, Georgia, Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund (SPLC), Georgia NAACP, Black Voters Matter, and American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia (ACLU-GA) sent a letter to the Cobb County Board of Commissioners and Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration expressing concern […]
Friday, March 14, 2014 | news
On March 3, 2014, LDF sent a letter to Edward FitzGerald, the County Executive of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Jeannet Wright, Acting County Treasurer, and the members of the Cuyahoga County council urging them to make changes to Cuyahoga County’s property tax lien sales system. Tax lien sales are used by many jurisdictions across the country as […]
Tuesday, June 19, 2018 | news
Related Case or Issue: Policing Reform Campaign LDF Urges California Lawmakers to Change Police Use-of-Deadly-Force Standard LDF sends letter calling for passage of AB 931, which would allow police to use lethal force only to prevent imminent bodily injury or death Following the tragic police killing of Stephon Clark in March, a bill was […]
Thursday, September 1, 2016 | news
In a letter to California Governor Jerry Brown, LDF urges the signing of Assembly Bill (AB) 2466, which will codify a recent court decision, Scott v. Bowen, concerning voter eligibility and eliminate residual ambiguity in state law regarding the impact that a felony conviction has on voting. The Bill would amend the California’s Elections Code […]
Friday, June 7, 2024 | news
In response to a recent event in which Brigham Young University-Hawaii (BYU-Hawaii) told a Black student he needed to cut his locs or else face expulsion, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) sent a letter to the university’s president. Colleges and universities must create welcoming, inclusive environments for all students, regardless of their race, ethnicity, or […]
Wednesday, June 26, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) is pleased to learn the city’s Consent Decree monitoring team is reviewing a recent incident involving an arrest of two youth in Cherry Hill. We urge the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) to also investigate this incident. Two years ago the City of Baltimore entered into a consent […]
