Monday, August 29, 2016 | news
Gardendale Practice Part of Troubling Trend of Reinstating Racially Segregated Education The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an objection in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama in Stout v. Jefferson, opposing the Gardendale City School Board’s efforts to stymie the desegregation of Jefferson County schools. The […]
Friday, January 12, 2018 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Files Notice of Appeal in Alabama Photo ID Case The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed a notice of appeal today in the lawsuit challenging Alabama’s racially discriminatory photo ID law. On January 10, U.S. District Court Judge L. Scott Coogler issued a ruling dismissing LDF’s lawsuit […]
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 | case-update
Today, top civil rights organizations filed a motion in New York Supreme Court asking to intervene to help defend New York’s new law allocating people in prison to their home communities for redistricting and reapportionment.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 | news
(New York, NY) – Today, the District Court granted the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.’s (LDF) motion to intervene in a lawsuit initiated by the State of Georgia. LDF seeks to defend and enforce Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act on behalf of organizations committed to the registration of African-American and other […]
Wednesday, February 21, 2018 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Files Motion for an Expedited Appeal in Challenge to Alabama’s Racially Discriminatory Photo ID Law The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Covington & Burling, LLP, and local counsel Mitch McGuire have filed an appeal today of the U.S. District Court’s decision to dismiss a […]
Monday, June 10, 2019 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), with co-counsel, Arkie Byrd of Mays, Byrd & O’Guinn, P.A., and the law firm of Shearman & Sterling, LLP filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Black voters challenging the method of electing judges to the Arkansas Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. The election […]
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 | case-update
Today, one day after celebrating the 60th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama — an act that ignited the Civil Rights Movement — lawyers from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), and Covington & Burling, LLP, along with Alabama attorney Ed Still […]
Thursday, April 30, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed a lawsuit against Attorney General William Barr, the United States Department of Justice, the Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice (“Commission”), and the chair and vice chair of this Commission. Our suit challenges the creation of the Commission – an […]
Thursday, May 6, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed a federal lawsuit against Secretary of State Laurel M. Lee challenging Florida’s new law that greatly obstructs voting access. The lawsuit argues that S.B. 90 creates barriers and burdens that impact all Florida voters and disproportionately impacts the ability of Black voters, Latino voters, […]
Wednesday, December 18, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has filed a class action lawsuit today in the Northern District of Ohio against the City of Cleveland on behalf of the city’s Black residents who are disproportionately affected by the city water department’s practices. The lawsuit, which brings claims under the Fair Housing Act, the […]
