Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
In August 2009, LDF filed a friend-of-the-court brief defending the constitutionality of the North Carolina’s Minority and Women Business Enterprise (M/WBE) Program for state-funded road construction projects. The North Carolina General Assembly reauthorized its M/WBE Program in 2006, based on its considered policy judgment that historical and ongoing discrimination continues to impede access to contracting […]
Thursday, June 23, 2022 | page
Gun Control and Public Safety LDF has long supported gun control — before the Supreme Court, and with federal, state, and local policymakers. In the U.S., a cruel indifference to life — especially the lives of Black people — has normalized what should rightly be understood as a crisis of gun violence, which endangers a disproportionate […]
Tuesday, June 2, 2020 | case-issue
On May 28, 2019, Governor Ron DeSantis signed SB7066 into law. SB7066 requires that returning citizens pay all financial obligations specified within a sentencing document before registering to vote; disproportionately harming low-income and racial minority returning citizens based on the well-documented and understood racial disparities in Florida’s criminal justice system and Florida’s racial wealth gap. […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
Gratz v. Bollinger & Grutter v. Bollinger Protecting holistic, race conscious admissions In June 2003, the Supreme Court issued landmark rulings in two companion cases, Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger. In Grutter, the Court rebuffed a constitutional challenge to the use of race in admissions to the University of Michigan Law School. In so doing, the Court […]
Tuesday, August 4, 2020 | news
Broad Coalition Filed Briefs Today Arguing Florida Law Unconstitutionally Bars Hundreds of Thousands of Floridians From Voting Solely Because They Lack Enough Money Voting rights advocates today urged a federal appeals court to uphold a decision that concluded a Florida law that created wealth-based hurdles to voting is unconstitutional. The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU […]
Friday, June 28, 2019 | news
Federal Lawsuit Filed Immediately After Governor Signed Bill Into Law GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Florida, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law filed a federal lawsuit today challenging a new state law that creates wealth-based hurdles to voting and undermines Floridians’ overwhelming support for Amendment […]
Monday, September 16, 2019 | news
Federal lawsuit filed immediately after governor signed bill into law The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Florida, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law filed a federal lawsuit today challenging a new state law that creates wealth-based hurdles to voting and undermines Floridians’ overwhelming support for Amendment 4. Floridians voted […]
Monday, November 15, 2021 | news
CONTACT: Ella Wiley, LDF,925-819-0555, ewiley@naacpldf.org Rebecca Seung-Bickley, ACLU of Alabama, 334-561-3829, rseungbickley@aclualabama.org Inga Sarda-Sorensen, ACLU National, 347-514-3984, isarda-sorensen@aclu.org Graeme Crews, SPLC, 334-224-0002, graeme.crews@splcenter.org BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Individual voters joined with civil rights and faith groups today to file a pair of lawsuits in federal court challenging Alabama’s newly drawn political maps for state legislative and congressional districts. The lawsuits […]
Friday, June 27, 2025 | news
Read a full PDF of the statement here. Immigrants rights’ advocates today filed a new nationwide class-action lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship. The lawsuit is in response to today’s Supreme Court ruling that potentially opens the door for partial enforcement of the executive order. This new case was filed […]
Saturday, August 3, 2019 | news
An analysis of 48 Florida counties shows fewer than one in five Floridians with past felony convictions would be eligible to vote under the new law The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Florida, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law filed a motion for preliminary injunction to […]
