Saturday, August 3, 2013 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund and this country have lost one of our great civil rights lawyers and leaders. Julius Chambers, the third Director-Counsel of LDF and former Chair of its Board, died on Friday August 2nd in North Carolina after a long illness. He was 76 years old. Chambers devoted his entire adult life […]
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 | director-counsels
Julius Chambers was the third Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., serving from 1984-1993. One of this country’s great civil rights lawyers and leaders, he devoted his entire adult life to civil rights law. He died in 2013. His dedication to equality and justice was shaped by his formative experiences as a […]
Friday, June 21, 2019 | board-of-directors
Monday, September 11, 2006 | case-update
On September 11, 2006, Federal District Court Judge Frederic Block upheld key job benefits received by minority and female custodians in the New York City public schools. Judge Block held that the job benefits, including permanent civil service appointments and retroactive seniority, were a permissible remedy for the Board of Education’s past racial discrimination and […]
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 | news
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a challenge to election monitoring required under the Voting Rights Act to ensure mostly southern states are no longer disenfranchising black voters and found that discrimination continues in modern-day polling. U.S. District Judge John Bates ruled against Shelby County, Ala., which sued Attorney General Eric Holder to […]
Monday, November 18, 2013 | news
Judge Shira Scheindlin was asked by the Bloomberg administration to ‘recuse herself’ from a class-action suit involving NYPD stops for trespassing in city housing projects. In a prior class-action suit on an NYPD practice, Scheindlin found aspects of stop-and-frisk were unconstitutional — but was later booted off the case. …Johanna Steinberg, senior counsel of the […]
Tuesday, January 3, 2012 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund mourns the passing of Judge Robert L. Carter, a true giant of the struggle for racial justice and equality. Judge Carter lived an extraordinary life. A graduate of Howard Law School, he was one of the original members of the legal team Thurgood Marshall gathered at the Legal […]
Saturday, May 12, 2012 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. is deeply saddened by the passing of Judge Louis H. Pollak, a legendary figure in LDF’s and this nation’s quest for racial justice and equality. Fighting for equality may have been part of Judge Pollak’s destiny because his father, Walter Pollak, argued the infamous Scottsboro case in […]
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 | page
SCOTUS WATCH Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson: Her Civil Rights Record LDF is committed both to ensuring that the federal judiciary reflects the diversity of this nation and to protecting the central role the courts play in the enforcement of civil rights laws and the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection. The addition of a justice to […]
Friday, April 7, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. Judge Gorsuch Must Prove Himself To Be a Justice for All Americans Earlier today, the U.S. Senate voted in favor of confirming Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court, despite serious concerns about his views on a wide range of critical legal issues, including many with profound […]
