Friday, February 7, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted an amicus brief in Torres v. Madrid, a Supreme Court case that will determine whether the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable seizures applies to a significant number of police shootings. The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that there is no “seizure” under the […]
Friday, August 19, 2022 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, arguing that the Petitioner, the founder of the design studio 303 Creative, should not be allowed to violate public accommodations laws based on her religiously grounded objection to same-sex marriage. The Petitioner has claimed […]
Friday, July 8, 2022 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court in Rodney Reed v. Bryan Goertz, arguing that the petitioner — a Black man on death row in Texas for a crime he likely did not commit — was wrongfully denied post-conviction DNA testing that could help prove his […]
Monday, October 31, 2022 | news
Last Friday, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in United States vs. Flores-González, in support of the appellant Mr. Emiliano Flores-González. Mr. Flores-González, a 19-year-old with no criminal history, was sentenced to 48 months in prison – far more than the federal […]
Friday, June 11, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in Thompson v. Clark, a U.S. Supreme Court case that will determine whether a plaintiff filing a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil action for unlawful seizure pursuant to legal process—commonly referred to as malicious prosecution—under the Fourth Amendment must show that […]
Friday, March 6, 2015 | case-update
Consistent with LDF’s ;work over the last 75 years to enforce the Constitution’s guarantees against all forms of discrimination, we urge the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down discriminatory state laws that impinge upon the freedom to marry. Four decades ago, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that state bans on interracial marriage were unconstitutional in Loving […]
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to overturn its decision in Apocada v. Oregon, a case that allowed states to have non-unanimous jury verdicts. Data from over 199 recent verdicts reveals the discriminatory effect of this provision; the influence of Black jurors (who are […]
Friday, May 3, 2019 | news
When President Trump declared a national emergency to secure funding for a wall along the southern border in February, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) committed to working with our partners in the civil rights community to combat his authoritarian decree. Late yesterday, LDF filed an amicus brief in Sierra Club v. […]
Friday, October 29, 2021 | news
This week, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in Whole Women’s Health v. Austin Reeve Jackson, a case before the Supreme Court regarding Texas’s unconstitutional Senate Bill 8 (S.B. 8), which seeks to flout Supreme Court precedent and deny the right to abortion care to people in Texas. […]
Friday, October 29, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in CVS Pharmacy, Inc. v. Doe, a case before the Supreme Court that will determine whether the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504) prohibit disparate impact discrimination against people […]
