Thursday, September 23, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in Broadnax v. Lumpkin supporting Mr. Broadnax’s request that the U.S. Supreme Court review a Fifth Circuit decision that would prevent federal courts in that circuit presiding over habeas corpus proceedings from considering newly-discovered evidence of racial discrimination against Black jurors […]
Wednesday, November 1, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Files Amicus Brief in Texas Death Penalty Case Late yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in support of Bobby James Moore’s claim that his intellectual disability bars him from execution. The brief was […]
Tuesday, February 16, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in support of certiorari in Supreme Court case Collier v. Dallas County Hospital District. Robert Collier, a Black man, worked as an operating room aide at a hospital in Dallas, Texas, where he experienced repeated incidents of racial discrimination. During his […]
Monday, July 25, 2022 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of the United States in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. University of North Carolina (UNC) on behalf of LDF and the NAACP in support of UNC’s race-conscious admissions process. UNC is one of the country’s oldest taxpayer-funded, public universities and, […]
Friday, December 1, 2023 | news
On Nov. 29, 2023, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in support of defendants in L.M. v. Town of Middleborough, Massachusetts, et. al., a case concerning a middle school’s right to prohibit clothing with discriminatory text that contributes to a hostile environment for transgender and nonbinary students. School officials took this action […]
Tuesday, May 7, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the Ohio Supreme Court today arguing that courts must assess a defendant’s ability to pay when considering whether to suspend, waive, or modify court costs imposed at sentencing. “When a state insists on pursuing court costs despite a person’s inability to […]
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 | news
LDF filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Alliance for Fair Board Recruitment (“AFBR”) v. Securities and Exchange Commission in support of Nasdaq’s Board Diversity Rule, which requires Nasdaq-listed companies to disclose information about corporate board diversity to the public. Although it is well established that the […]
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 | news
Yesterday, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in NYCLU v. Rochester, a case currently before the New York Court of Appeals pertaining to the disclosure of police disciplinary records. Following the New York State Legislature’s repeal of Civil Rights Law Section 50-a, a law that shielded police misconduct records from the public, […]
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 | news
Earlier this week, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Bronx Defenders, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Legal Aid Society, and New York Civil Liberties Union filed an amicus brief in the case United States v. Calvin Weaver. Mr. Weaver was a passenger in a car that was pulled over for a […]
Monday, April 19, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and co-counsel Mark C. McLawhorn submitted an amicus brief in support of Richard Moore, a Black man currently on death row in South Carolina, who challenges his death sentence as unconstitutional under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The South Carolina […]
