Tuesday, January 13, 2015 | case-update
Atlanta, Georgia—A three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals will require a trial in a successful Voting Rights Act challenge to Fayette County, Georgia at-large method of electing members to the County Commission and School Board. LDF filed this case on behalf of the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, the Fayette County NAACP and […]
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 | case-update
Texas’s Photo ID One of the Most Discriminatory in the Country (Corpus Christi, TX)—Today, a two-week trial begins in United States v. Texas, a federal challenge to Texas’s discriminatory photo ID law, Senate Bill 14. In this case with important national implications, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and its co-counsel law firm […]
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 | news
Texas’s Photo ID One of the Most Discriminatory in the Country (Corpus Christi, TX)—Today, a two-week trial begins in United States v. Texas, a federal challenge to Texas’s discriminatory photo ID law, Senate Bill 14. In this case with important national implications, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and its co-counsel law […]
Friday, February 22, 2013 | case-update
The Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder on February 27, 2013. Debo Adegbile, Special Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) will argue on behalf of intervenors in defense of the Voting Rights Act. The case involves a challenge by Shelby County, Alabama, to the Section 5 “preclearance” provision […]
Friday, February 22, 2013 | news
The Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder on February 27, 2013. Debo Adegbile, Special Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) will argue on behalf of intervenors in defense of the Voting Rights Act. The case involves a challenge by Shelby County, Alabama, to the Section […]
Friday, November 8, 2013 | case-update
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has granted LDF’s motion to participate in oral argument in Fisher vs. University of Texas, scheduled for Wednesday, November 13, 2013. Josh Civin, Counsel to the Director of Litigation at LDF, will argue on behalf of LDF and its clients, the Black Student Alliance at the University of […]
Thursday, September 16, 2010 | case-update
On Tuesday, September 21st, LDF will argue before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of plaintiffs challenging the state of Washington’s racially discriminatory law denying the right to vote from those convicted of felonies. A panel of the Court of Appeals ruled previously in January that, in Washington State, “minorities are more likely […]
Monday, August 26, 2019 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF)’s Senior Deputy Director of Litigation Jin Hee Lee, and several other prominent capital defense attorneys, will be presenting arguments to the Supreme Court of North Carolina on behalf of six individuals facing death sentences who are appealing their convictions under the Racial Justice Act that […]
Tuesday, November 1, 2016 | news
In a letter detailing the intimidation experienced by one of LDF’s own attorneys, who was engaged in non-partisan poll-watching during the primary, LDF contacted the Alabama Secretary of State expressing concerns over potential voter intimidation and called on him to reach out to county election officials in advance of Election Day to ensure all poll workers […]
Tuesday, September 19, 2017 | news
LDF Testifies on Voting Rights Before the Senate Democratic Policy and Communications Committee Today, Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), testified before the Senate Democratic Policy and Communications Committee about the challenges facing Americans in exercising their constitutional right to vote and ideas to improve voting […]
