Tuesday, March 2, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF) and Southern Poverty Law Center Action (SPLC Action) submitted testimony in the Georgia Senate Ethics Committee opposing Senate Bill 241 (S.B. 241) which would create unnecessary barriers and burdens on voters that disproportionately impact racial minority, low-income, elderly, rural, disabled, and student voters and may […]
Thursday, March 18, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and SPLC Action Fund (SPLC Action) provided testimony against Georgia Senate Bill 202 (S.B. 202). The organizations submitted written testimony “to express in the strongest possible terms our opposition to (i) various provisions in S..B 202, (ii) the timing of this bill on the heels […]
Monday, March 15, 2021 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and SPLC Action Fund (SPLC Action) submitted written testimony to Georgia’s Senate Ethics Committee to “express in the strongest possible terms our opposition to (i) various provisions in House Bill (“H.B.”) 531,1 (ii) the timing of this bill on the heels of ever-growing participation by Georgians […]
Sunday, April 3, 2016 | news
Last year on April 4, the nation watched a bystander’s video of a North Charleston police officer shooting and killing Walter Scott, an unarmed African American father, as he ran away during a routine traffic stop. The video was seen all over the world and confirmed with devastating clarity the demand for fundamental changes in […]
Monday, July 13, 2015 | news
Today, on the heels of the South Carolina State Legislature’s vote to remove the Confederate flag from the state capitol, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), in partnership with the North Charleston Branch of the NAACP and over two dozen South Carolina leaders, submitted a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch […]
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and Rights Behind Bars, a legal advocacy organization for incarcerated people, submitted an amicus brief in Mack v. Yost et al. The case, which is now before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, concerns the scope of qualified immunity — a […]
Friday, December 17, 2021 | news
On behalf of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Public Citizen Litigation Group and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) announced today a settlement in the case NAACP v. United States Postal Service. The lawsuit, pending in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, was filed in […]
Tuesday, September 1, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and Public Citizen filed a preliminary injunction motion on behalf of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in an ongoing lawsuit against the United States Postal Service (USPS). The preliminary injunction motion seeks to suspend service changes that have disrupted mail delivery. These changes have resulted in […]
Thursday, August 20, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and Public Citizen filed a lawsuit on behalf of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) against the United States Postal Service (USPS). Our suit, which was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, argues that recent changes by USPS were […]
Friday, May 4, 2012 | case-update
(New Orleans, LA) – Yesterday, voting rights advocates won an important legal victory that will ensure that Louisiana’s public assistance agency clients—the state’s poorest and most marginalized residents—will be offered an opportunity to register to vote. In a forceful decision, a federal judge ruled in favor of the Louisiana State Conference of the NAACP that Section 7 […]
