Thursday, October 26, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF & North Charleston Partners Send Letter to City Leadership Demanding Renewed Commitment to Community-Oriented Policing Reforms The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the Charleston Area Justice Ministry, the ACLU of South Carolina, The Community Resource Center, and the North Charleston Branch of the NAACP today sent […]
Thursday, October 26, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF & North Charleston Partners Send Letter to City Leadership Demanding Renewed Commitment to Community-Oriented Policing Reforms The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the Charleston Area Justice Ministry, the ACLU of South Carolina, the Community Resource Center, and the North Charleston Branch of the NAACP today sent […]
Thursday, November 4, 2010 | ldf-brochures
70 years is a significant amount of time in America’s nearly 400-year continuing struggle for racial justice and equality before the law. In those seven decades, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has helped change the world. Because of LDF, no one can get away with saying that black people—or any people—have […]
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 | news
WASHINGTON – Today, The Leadership Conference on Human and Civil Rights released a video highlighting Sessions’ attempt to jail Alabama civil rights workers who were registering black voters in 1985. The video features one of Sessions’ victims, Evelyn Turner, discussing how she was targeted for wrongful prosecution for helping elderly Black voters. In the video, […]
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 | news
By: Angel Harris, Jenn Rolnick Borchetta and Darius Charney Source: New York Times Related Case or Issue: Davis v. City of New York Most people think we won the stop-and-frisk case in 2013, when a federal court ruled the New York City Police Department’s use of the practice was unconstitutional. But as the lawyers in […]
Wednesday, January 29, 2020 | news
Today, Robinson v. Wentzell, a misguided federal lawsuit which challenged the racial integration goals for magnet schools in the Hartford region, was voluntarily withdrawn and dismissed by the court. This dismissal comes following the recent settlement in the related state court case Sheff v. O’Neill and strengthens the advancements made in that historic case. Sheff […]
Tuesday, September 7, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Reed Smith LLP, and The Arc filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Houston Area Urban League, Houston Justice, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and The Arc of Texas challenging S.B. 1, a new Texas law targeting voting rights. S.B. 1 includes a series of […]
Monday, April 29, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and Morrison & Foerster LLP filed a lawsuit against the Binghamton School District on behalf of parents whose twelve-year-old daughters were subjected to an illegal strip search in January. The lawsuit comes after the school district failed to rectify the situation, including a refusal to issue […]
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 | news
Three former managers at Wet Seal, a nationwide apparel retailer for young women, filed a federal race discrimination lawsuit on Thursday, asserting that the company had a high-level policy of firing and denying pay increases and promotions to African-American employees because they did not fit its “brand image.” The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in Santa Ana, […]
Tuesday, August 10, 2021 | news
Yesterday, a federal judge allowed the lawsuit challenging Florida’s anti-protest law, H.B.1, to move forward. The claims, filed by civil rights groups, allege racial discrimination and First Amendment violations against Governor DeSantis, Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil, Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams, and Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony. Among other things, H.B.1 risks criminalizing peaceful protest, […]
