Friday, February 4, 2022 | news
Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued an opinion reversing a district court’s ruling in T.R. v. Lamar County Board of Education, a case involving the repeated strip-searching of a minor (“T.R.”) by Lamar County, Alabama, school officials who defended themselves with claims of qualified immunity. The U.S. District Court […]
Friday, February 9, 2018 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. U.S. Census Bureau Will Continue to Count Incarcerated Individuals as Residents of Prisons, Contributing to the Diminished Voting Power of Communities of Color The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is extremely disappointed with the Census Bureau’s recent decision to continue to count upwards of 2 […]
Thursday, July 10, 2014 | news
This month the Columbia Law School magazine features a story about former federal Judge U.W. Clemon, a graduate of their class of 1968. Judge Clemon, who stepped down from the federal bench after a 30 year judicial career, is an illustrious member of the LDF family. He served as an early Earl Warren fellow and as a cooperating attorney, litigating […]
Friday, March 1, 2013 | news
On Wednesday, February 27, 2013, Debo P. Adegbile of the NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund, Inc. (LDF) presented oral argument on behalf of defendant-intervenors in the Supreme Court in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, one of the most important civil rights cases in a generation. Shelby County seeks to destroy the core of the Voting Rights Act, […]
Sunday, June 29, 2025 | news
Today marks two years since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard/UNC (SFFA), which prohibited the limited use of race in the admissions processes at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) represented a multi-racial coalition of Harvard […]
Monday, June 24, 2013 | news
Statement of Sherrilyn Ifill, President & Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. on the Court’s Decisions in University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar and Vance v. Ball State University (Washington, D.C.) Today the Supreme Court set back enforcement of our nation’s key federal safeguard against racial harassment, discrimination, and retaliation in the workplace. The […]
Wednesday, May 27, 2020 | news
On May 22, Everett De’Andre Arnold, Sandy Arnold, and Cindy Bradford (on behalf of her minor son K.B.) filed a lawsuit against the Barbers Hill Independent School District (BHISD), its Board of Trustees, and additional individual defendants challenging its discriminatory hair policy. Mr. Arnold and K.B. were informed by BHISD earlier this year that they […]
Thursday, July 7, 2016 | news
Not even twenty-four hours after Alton Sterling’s death at the hands of law enforcement in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Philando Castile was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop near St. Paul, Minnesota. LDF’s sincere condolences are with the families of Mr. Sterling and Mr. Castile and all of those impacted by […]
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 | news
Twelve years ago, on June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling in Shelby County v. Holder that severely weakened a crucial section of the Voting Rights Act. By declaring the preclearance framework unconstitutional — a framework that identified which states and localities with histories of racial discrimination in elections were required […]
Tuesday, January 30, 2024 | news
Today, twelve civil rights organizations sent a letter to the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and the Texas State Board of Education urging the agencies to issue detailed guidance to school districts concerning the implementation of Texas’s Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act (the “Texas CROWN Act”). The Texas CROWN Act became […]
