Wednesday, July 7, 2021 | news
Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and counsel Squire Patton Boggs filed an amicus brief in support of David Hansard, a Black man who was stopped and arrested in Ohio. The officer stopped Mr. Hansard, allegedly based on a minor traffic violation and, after searching Mr. Hansard, found a small amount of […]
Tuesday, February 13, 2018 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Files Amicus Brief in Ohio Death Penalty Case Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of Ohio in support of Glen E. Bates, arguing that defense counsel failed to protect Mr. Bates’s constitutional right to an impartial jury by […]
Tuesday, July 3, 2018 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief urging the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to find unconstitutional the U.S. government’s ban on transgender Americans serving in the military. The brief explains that the justifications the government is relying on to discriminate against transgender people are almost identical to the explanations […]
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 | news
This week, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the National Urban League filed an amicus brief in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, which asks whether a New York gun safety law that requires a person to show “proper cause,” or a special need for self-protection, to carry a concealed […]
Thursday, December 23, 2021 | news
Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), in partnership with Justice in Aging and Mobilization for Justice, filed an amicus brief in Dorce v. City of New York, a case before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York concerning a New York City program, known as the Third Party Transfer (TPT) […]
Thursday, October 31, 2013 | case-update
In Township of Mount Holly v. Mount Holly Gardens Citizens in Action, Inc., the Township of Mount Holly declared Mount Holly Gardens, the Township’s only neighborhood predominantly occupied by African Americans and Latinos, blighted and in need of rehabilitation. The Township developed a plan to demolish all of the homes in the Gardens without providing adequate […]
Friday, February 25, 2022 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., with co-counsel Hogan Lovells and Fred Banks, filed an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi in a redistricting case opposing the state’s recently enacted Congressional redistricting plan. LDF’s brief argues that Mississippi’s drawing of Congressional District 2 – the […]
Friday, August 13, 2021 | news
Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and counsel Janey Lanier filed an amicus brief in the Michigan Supreme Court in support of Keyon Harrison and Denishio Johnson, two Black teenagers who, on separate occasions, were stopped, interrogated, searched, photographed, and fingerprinted by the Grand Rapids Police Department even though neither teen committed […]
Friday, November 18, 2016 | news
On November 10, 2016, LDF filed an amicus brief in EEOC v. Catastrophe Management Solutions, in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. We were joined by the Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center and Professors D. Wendy Greene and Angela Onwuachi-Willig LDF’s brief argues in support of a petition for rehearing en banc in […]
Monday, November 15, 2021 | news
Last week, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the employment discrimination case of EEOC v. International Association of Bridge Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers Local 580, et al. The longstanding case was first filed in 1971, alleging that Local 580 and other unions violated Title VII of the […]
