Wednesday, November 23, 2022 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in Cerisier v. City of New York, in which New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer Saurabh Shah stopped and held motorist James Cerisier at gunpoint for a minor traffic infraction. Officer Shah acknowledged that Mr. Cerisier did nothing to behave more dangerously than any of […]
Tuesday, June 19, 2018 | news
LDF Files Amicus Brief in California Supreme Court Criticizing Race-Based Jury Selection Brief Challenges Legitimacy of “O.J. Simpson Question” Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief urging the California Supreme Court to grant a new trial to Johnny Duane Miles, a Black man sentenced to death in 1999. The brief […]
Friday, October 25, 2013 | case-update
At the time it was enacted in 1994, California’s “Three Strikes and You’re Out” law, was widely considered to be the harshest sentencing law in the United States. Thousands of people have been sentenced to life in prison for minor crimes like simple drug possession and petty theft. After nearly two decades of draconian sentences, […]
Friday, January 24, 2025 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and five other civil rights organizations filed an amicus brief in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, an employment discrimination case centered on the correct application of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The case comes before the Supreme Court after Marlean Ames filed a […]
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief today in support of the plaintiffs in Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians et al. v. Michael Howe, Secretary of State of North Dakota, a major voting rights case pending in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. In another recent decision, Arkansas State Conference NAACP v. […]
Friday, April 25, 2025 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief supporting the law firm Susman Godfrey in its attempt to prevent the enforcement of an executive order that punishes the firm for providing legal representation to a client that the President disfavors. The case is currently before the U.S. District Court for the District of […]
Friday, January 19, 2024 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court, along with co-counsel Burt M. Rublin of Ballard Spahr LLP, in Trump v. Anderson, a case concerning whether the actions of former president Donald Trump in connection with the January 6, 2021 insurrection render him ineligible to be a candidate […]
Monday, April 7, 2025 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in Perkins Coie v. Department of Justice, a case currently before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging an executive order that punishes the law firm Perkins Coie for providing legal representation to clients that the president views as political opponents. The […]
Tuesday, September 3, 2024 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), alongside co-counsel Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, filed an amicus brief in United States v. Skrmetti – a case challenging a Tennessee law that bans medically necessary gender-affirming health care for transgender youth. The brief argues that the health care ban is rooted in animus and violates the Fourteenth […]
Tuesday, November 17, 2020 | news
Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and law firm Milbank LLP filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm a lower court ruling in Trump v. New York, in which the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York barred the Trump Administration’s attempt to exclude […]
