Wednesday, August 15, 2012 | news
Justice Johnson Would be the Court’s First African-American Chief Justice New York, New York—The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed a friend of the court brief in Chisom v. Jindal, in support of claims that Justice Bernette Johnson is next in line to succeed the current chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme […]
Friday, April 11, 2025 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed amicus briefs supporting law firms Jenner & Block and WilmerHale in their respective lawsuits to permanently block the implementation of executive orders that punish the firms for providing legal representation to clients that the President views as political opponents. Both cases are […]
Friday, September 18, 2020 | news
Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court supporting the overturning of the judicial override for capital punishment in Alabama. In previous capital cases, if a jury voted to sentence a defendant to life in prison, a judge in Alabama could override the […]
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | news
Tonight, Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams is scheduled to be executed by the State of Missouri, unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes. There is compelling evidence that Mr. Williams is innocent of the crime of which he was convicted and for which he is facing execution. Moreover, the proceedings in his case were rife with errors that […]
Tuesday, October 2, 2018 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a case concerning the circumstances under which a juvenile defendant can be sentenced to life in prison without parole. LDF argues that in sentencing a juvenile to life without parole, a Mississippi court ignored clear […]
Friday, February 19, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ACLU of Florida, and the R Street Institute filed an amicus brief in support of certiorari in the Supreme Court case Tarahtick Terry v. United States. Mr. Terry sought resentencing for a 2008 crack-cocaine offense under the 2018 First […]
Monday, July 16, 2018 | news
LDF Files Amicus Brief Urging North Carolina Supreme Court to Address Race Discrimination in Death Penalty Cases Brief Calls for Defendants to Receive New Sentences or Have Chance to Challenge Claims of Racial Bias Under North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief urging the North Carolina […]
Wednesday, December 24, 2014 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief arguing that the Supreme Court of the United States should uphold a vital component of our nation’s civil rights laws known as the “disparate impact” standard. The brief, filed in the case of Texas v. Inclusive Communities Project, highlights an often overlooked dimension […]
Wednesday, November 24, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the Eleventh Circuit in support of Drew Adams, a transgender man who sued the St. Johns County School Board when he was a student over its use of a discriminatory bathroom policy that prohibits Adams from using the boys’ bathroom. […]
Thursday, February 20, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in Brown v. Preycthe. The brief urges the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the district court’s ruling that Missouri’s parole procedures for people sentenced to juvenile life without parole (JLWOP) did not comply with United States Supreme Court precedent […]
