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 […]
Thursday, September 3, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational and Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in support of plaintiffs challenging New York City’s Third Party Transfer (TPT) Program. The brief focuses on the racially discriminatory nature of the program and its impact on rapidly gentrifying […]
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 | news
On Tuesday, January 30, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in support of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Danco Laboratories, in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine and Danco Laboratories LLC v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. The consolidated cases, to be heard in the Supreme Court, will decide […]
Thursday, December 8, 2022 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) has filed an amicus brief supporting a United States Supreme Court cert petition in Harness v. Watson, a case challenging the Mississippi state constitution’s felony disenfranchisement provision (Section 241), which was enacted in 1890 with overtly racist intent. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) joined LDF’s amicus brief. Section 241 […]
Thursday, July 23, 2020 | news
Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case Edwards v. Vannoy, where the Court will consider whether to retroactively apply its ruling from last term in Ramos v. Louisiana that the Sixth Amendment requires a unanimous jury before a defendant can be convicted of […]
Friday, December 15, 2023 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), joined by Safe & Just Michigan (SJM), filed an amicus brief in the Michigan Supreme Court, urging the Court to grant review and hold that juvenile life without parole (JLWOP) sentences violate the state’s constitutional prohibition against “cruel or unusual” punishment. The brief is filed in support of Efrén Paredes, who […]
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), along with co-counsel Winston & Strawn LLP, filed an amended complaint in its lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s “Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping.” The complaint adds the American Association for Access, Equity and Diversity (AAAED) as a plaintiff in the federal lawsuit, […]
Tuesday, December 22, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), a non-partisan civil and human rights organization, filed an amended complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia a lawsuit challenging President Trump and the Trump Campaign’s ongoing efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election by disenfranchising Black voters. […]
Thursday, March 11, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), along with the law firm Outten & Golden LLP, filed an amended complaint in Mandala v. NTT, a class action lawsuit challenging discriminatory employment policies at one of the world’s largest information technology service providers. The complaint, which was filed in the New York State […]
