Wednesday, February 27, 2013 | case-update
(Washington, D.C.) The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, et al. LDF Special Counsel Debo Adegbile argued on behalf of Respondent-Intervenors in defense of the Voting Rights Act. LDF represents six African-American residents of Shelby County who seek to defend the constitutionality of the core provisions of the Act. Photo credit: Jocelyn […]
Wednesday, November 8, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Defends Intentional Discrimination Ruling Against Texas Photo ID Law on Appeal and Fights for Full Relief for Black and Latino Voters Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and its co-counsel filed an appellate brief before a three-judge court of the Fifth Circuit Court of […]
Saturday, December 13, 2014 | case-update
Atlanta, Georgia–This week, LDF Assistant Counsel Leah Aden presented oral argument before a three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in defense of a successful Voting Rights Act lawsuit that required Fayette County, Georgia to conduct its elections for County Commission and School Board under a district-based plan. That win paved the way for Fayette County voters in the November 2014 elections to both lead the state of Georgia in voter turnout, […]
Wednesday, July 22, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) defended a Black high school student at a virtual preliminary injunction hearing to determine whether the Barbers Hill Independent School District (BHISD), located in Mont Belvieu near Houston, Texas, will be enjoined from excluding him from class in the 2020-21 school year because he refuses […]
Wednesday, August 9, 2023 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court along with eight other organizations in Acheson Hotels, LLC vs Laufer. The case focuses on whether “testers” whose rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) are violated by virtue of a hotel’s failure to provide disability accessibility information have […]
Monday, November 9, 2015 | news
Updated on Nov. 13, 2015 with more obituaries and rememberances. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) deeply mourns the passing of former Associate Director-Counsel, Jacqueline A. Berrien, who succumbed to a brief but intense battle with cancer early this morning. Berrien was an extraordinary and highly accomplished civil rights lawyer, the 14th […]
Saturday, November 15, 2014 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. deeply mourns the loss of William Scheide, mentor and friend to successive Director-Counsels, longstanding member of the board, and the organization’s most generous individual donor. Many who knew William Scheide knew that social justice was not merely a cause but a way of life. The impact […]
Monday, July 7, 2025 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. Today, after succeeding in convincing county lawmakers to pass a new map that provides fair representation to Black voters, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) declared victory and voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit challenging the illegal and unconstitutional 2021 map of the Fayette County, Tennessee Board of County Commissioners. LDF […]
Thursday, May 22, 2025 | news
Today, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it will open a Title VI investigation into the admissions process for the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ). This announcement came one day after Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares publicly issued findings by his office that the policy […]
Friday, January 11, 2013 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) has developed a Know Your Rights Academy to address unlawful, stops, frisks, searches, and arrests by NYPD officers conducting vertical patrols and enforcing criminal trespass in NYCHA buildings. The Academy will train a cadre of Manhattan NYCHA residents in the fundamentals of organizing and facilitation of Know […]
