Wednesday, March 8, 2017 | news
NAACP Legal Defense Fund Files Brief in Support of Older Worker Seeking Supreme Court Review of his Employment Discrimination Suit Today, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of the United States in Villarreal v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, Co. LDF’s brief was filed in support of Richard M. Villarreal, […]
Friday, June 28, 2024 | news
On June 12, 2024, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed a brief in its ongoing St. John the Baptist Parish school desegregation case in Louisiana seeking to close Fifth Ward Elementary and relocate its students to more environmentally safer facilities at La Place Elementary School. Fifth Ward Elementary is a school in St. John the […]
Tuesday, August 16, 2022 | news
Yesterday, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) submitted an appellate brief on behalf of Germaine Smart, who alleges that he was sexually assaulted in an Alabama State Prison in 2017 by a St. Clair Correctional Facility officer. In response to the assault, Mr. Smart filed a sexual misconduct grievance with the prison. However, despite two witnesses supporting Mr. Smart’s […]
Monday, October 7, 2024 | news
On October 4th, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), Covington & Burling LLP, and fair housing lawyer Avery Friedman filed a brief with the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in response to the City of Cleveland’s appeal in Pickett v. Cleveland, a federal class action lawsuit challenging discriminatory water billing policies and practices in Cleveland, […]
Monday, January 30, 2012 | case-update
LDF filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief in the United States Supreme Court in Magner v. Gallagher. In Magner, a group of private landlords of low-income housing challenged the City of St. Paul’s practice of selectively targeting them for heightened housing code enforcement. The plaintiffs alleged that this practice increased the costs […]
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), along with co-counsel Shania King, filed an en banc brief in Gilmore v. Milton, a case where correctional officers were granted qualified immunity following an invasive strip-search of Clarissa Gilmore during her visit to a Georgia state prison. In August, an Eleventh Circuit panel found that although nine circuit […]
Friday, July 29, 2016 | news
On Thursday, attorneys for Duane Buck filed his Brief for Petitioner with the U.S. Supreme Court in Buck v. Davis, an extraordinary Texas death penalty case about racial bias and ineffective assistance of counsel. Mr. Buck was sentenced to death after his own trial counsel knowingly introduced “expert” testimony that Mr. Buck was more likely […]
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 | case-update
Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed a brief in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, a case challenging the constitutionality of two core provisions of the Voting Rights Act. The law requires jurisdictions with a history of discrimination to have voting changes reviewed by the U.S. Department of Justice or D.C. […]
Friday, February 15, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today filed an amicus brief urging the North Carolina Supreme Court to allow Rayford Burke the opportunity to prove that racial bias impermissibly influenced jury selection and infected his death sentence. The brief argues that the prosecution discriminated against prospective Black jurors in Mr. Burke’s trial, and […]
Monday, February 25, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief late Friday urging the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to rule that the death penalty violates the Commonwealth’s constitutional protection against cruel punishment. The brief argues that the pervasive racial discrimination underlying Pennsylvania’s use of capital punishment is grounds to bar the death penalty and […]
