Thursday, March 7, 2013 | news
On the weekend marking the 48th commemoration of Bloody Sunday, NAACP LDF President & Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill appears on local Alabama television stations and reminds the nation of the continuing need for the Voting Rights Act. View Ms. Ifill’s appearance here. Fewer than fifty years ago, hundreds of citizens were brutally attacked as they attempted one […]
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 | case-update
Yesterday, Joshua Civin, Associate Counsel for LDF’s Education Practice, presented argument before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of LDF and its client, the Black Students Alliance at the University of Texas at Austin.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 | case-update
Today, LDF presented oral argument before the U.S. District Court, District of Columbia in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder. LDF argued in defense of the continued need for Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, a core provision, due to ongoing and persistent discrimination in voting.
Monday, September 22, 2014 | news
Update: Read Ryan Haygood’s powerful closing argument. CORPUS CHRISTI, TX — Lawyers from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and its co-counsel law firm Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr LLP (WilmerHale) will present closing arguments today in a closely watched voting rights case with national implications. United States v. Texas alleges […]
Monday, September 22, 2014 | case-update
Update: Read Ryan Haygood’s powerful closing argument. CORPUS CHRISTI, TX — Lawyers from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and its co-counsel law firm Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr LLP (WilmerHale) will present closing arguments today in a closely watched voting rights case with national implications. United States v. Texas alleges that Texas Senate Bill […]
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 | news
Read the PDF version of our statement here. NAACP LDF Presents Argument in Louisiana Charter School Desegregation Case Earlier today, Deuel Ross, Assistant Counsel with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), argued before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that a one-race Louisiana charter school must comply with […]
Thursday, June 25, 2015 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is incredibly pleased that the United States Supreme Court today has reaffirmed core principles of fairness and equality by clearly and unambiguously recognizing both the legality and the importance of the “disparate impact” protections of the Fair Housing Act in addressing housing discrimination. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities […]
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 | news
(New York, NY – April 17, 2024) Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) lauds the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Muldrow v. St. Louis that preserves the goal and intent of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which protects employees from discrimination in the workplace. LDF filed an amicus brief in […]
Thursday, September 19, 2013 | news
LDF welcomed today’s vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee to approve the nomination of Cornelia (“Nina”) Pillard to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Pillard was one of three persons nominated by President Obama to the D.C. Circuit in a Rose Garden ceremony in June. Pillard is a nationally renowned law professor […]
Sunday, January 19, 2025 | news
Today, along with issuing grants of clemency to Darryl Chamber, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Don Leonard Scott, Jr., Ravidath “Ravi” Ragbir, and Robin Peoples, all of whom exemplify the power of transformation and rehabilitation, President Biden issued executive clemency to former client of the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Kemba Smith Pradia, as well as Michelle West, […]
