Friday, May 4, 2012 | news
(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 […]
Thursday, October 27, 2022 | news
Today, LDF, NAACP Florida State Conference, Common Cause Florida, All Voting is Local Florida, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, Faith in Public Life, Demos, Southern Poverty Law Center, The League of Women Voters of Florida, Equal Ground, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Protect Democracy, American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, Campaign Legal Center, Florida Rising, and […]
Friday, November 15, 2024 | news
On September 23, 2024, a federal court judge in the NYPD stop-and-frisk and trespass enforcement cases published a detailed report that examined the NYPD’s disciplinary system for misconduct by uniformed officers. The Discipline Report reveals the many ways in which the NYPD fails to hold its officers accountable for misconduct during pedestrian stops, frisks, and […]
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 | news
As states across the country engage in the greatest assault on voting rights since Jim Crow, New York has an opportunity in 2022 to set a new standard for protecting the freedom to vote and continue its journey from “worst to first” on voting rights. The New York Voting Rights Consortium—a nonpartisan group of civil […]
Wednesday, April 13, 2022 | news
As states across the country engage in the greatest assault on voting rights since Jim Crow, Connecticut has an opportunity in 2022 to set a new standard for protecting the freedom to vote. LDF, the ACLU of Connecticut, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, Common Cause in Connecticut, and Hispanic Federation explain the benefits in a new fact sheet. […]
Thursday, September 27, 2012 | case-update
(New York, NY) Today, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), LatinoJustice PRLDEF and The Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College filed a federal civil rights complaint on behalf of a broad coalition of New York education, civil rights and social justice organizations challenging the admissions process at New York City’s elite […]
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and other civil rights organizations sent a letter to the Superintendent of the South Carolina Department of Education denouncing its decision to remove course credit for Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies. The civil rights organizations urged the S.C. Department of Education to restore academic credit for the course, […]
Thursday, April 28, 2016 | news
Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed a “friend of the court” brief in Guerrero v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, a case before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that the court should rely on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) 2012 Guidance on Employer Consideration of Arrest […]
Saturday, August 8, 2020 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the New Haven Legal Assistance Association (NHLAA) sent a letter urging the Connecticut Secretary of State to take immediate action to correct two significant issues that have come to light regarding absentee ballots in the upcoming primary election on August 11, 2020. Those issues are: […]
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 | news
Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the CROWN Act into law on Saturday, May 27. The new law will go into effect on September 1, 2023 and will prohibit race-based hair discrimination in Texas housing, workplaces, and schools. Texas is the 22nd state to enact a version of the law, joining Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, […]
