Friday, August 16, 2024 | news
Today, President Joe Biden signed a proclamation to establish the site of the 1908 Springfield Race Riot as a national monument on the 116th anniversary of the brutal attack that galvanized members of the Black community and led to the creation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Legal […]
Tuesday, December 19, 2023 | news
On Monday, as required by President Biden’s Executive Order on Advancing Effective, Accountable Policing and Criminal Justice Practices to Enhance Public Trust and Public Safety, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the launch of the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD), which will require certain federal law enforcement agencies to provide searchable records of […]
Friday, January 10, 2025 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) applauds new guidance regarding Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 released today by the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. LDF Director of Policy Demetria McCain issued the following statement: “Today, the Department of Education issued critical new guidance regarding Title VI of the Civil Rights […]
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 | news
In January 2014, DC Councilwoman Muriel Bowser introduced a Proposed Resolution that calls on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (“WMATA”) to revise its criminal records policy. In the Proposed Resolution, Councilwoman Bowser, who also serves as a member of WMATA’s Board of Directors, calls on WMATA to take additional steps to employ people with […]
Thursday, March 20, 2025 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), along with Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and The Arc of the U.S., today applauded a decision delivered Tuesday by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas that struck down certain provisions of S.B. 1, an egregious Texas law that sharply limits voting access. In its ruling, the […]
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 | news
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the anti-democratic independent state legislature (ISL) theory in Moore v. Harper. ISL theory in its most extreme interpretation gives state legislatures full control of elections and voting laws, with no checks and balances from state courts. In Moore, North Carolina legislators had argued that their congressional redistricting map — […]
Tuesday, January 26, 2016 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) applauds today’s U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Montgomery v. Louisiana, declaring that its previous decision in Miller v. Alabama–which banned mandatory sentences of life without parole for juvenile offenders–applies to those who were already serving life sentences without parole when Miller was announced. Previously, seven […]
Monday, January 25, 2016 | case-update
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) applauds the United States Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the appeal of Shelby County, Alabama, which was seeking millions of dollars in attorneys’ fees for its litigation of Shelby County v. Holder, the 2013 case where the Supreme Court declared that Section 4 of the Voting Right […]
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 | case-update
Today, the United States Supreme Court banned the imposition of mandatory life without parole sentences for children who were 17 or younger at the time of their crimes. In Miller v. Alabama, the Court declared that any life without parole sentence that is imposed on a child without consideration of unique personal characteristics such as age and […]
Monday, June 25, 2012 | news
(New York, NY) Today, the United States Supreme Court banned the imposition of mandatory life without parole sentences for children who were 17 or younger at the time of their crimes. In Miller v. Alabama, the Court declared that any life without parole sentence that is imposed on a child without consideration of unique personal […]
