Wednesday, October 30, 2019 | case-update
Click here to read the document: Stipulation of Settlement and Order
Monday, October 21, 2019 | case-update
Click here to view the document: Order Concerning Preliminary Approval of the Class Action Settlement
Sunday, November 1, 2015 | case-issue
BACKGROUND Rikers Island is the nation’s second largest jail network. On most days it houses approximately 8,000 arrestees and receives more than 800 visitors. Since 2002, hundreds of those visitors have reported that they were randomly strip searched or cavity searched by New York City Department of Correction (DOC) officers. These random invasive searches violate […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
Case: Economic Justice Griggs v. Duke Power, Co. Filed: 1970 In 1971, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling in Griggs v. Duke Power, which transformed our nation’s work places. As a result of LDF’s advocacy, the Supreme Court embraced a powerful legal tool – now known as the “disparate impact” framework – that has proved […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | board-of-directors
Friday, March 30, 2018 | staff
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
In December 2015, LDF filed a lawsuit on behalf of Greater Birmingham Ministries (“GBM”) and the Alabama NAACP challenging Alabama’s restrictive photo voter ID law HB 19. Although Alabama’s voter ID law was passed in June 2011, the State did not begin to implement it until after the Shelby County v. Holder decision in June […]
Friday, May 12, 2017 | ldf-perspectives
by Kyle Barry, LDF Policy Counsel Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has revealed that he is willing to trash longstanding Senate tradition and undermine his Senate colleagues to hand control of the federal courts over to President Donald Trump. Grassley said that he will allow Trump to go over the heads of Democratic senators to fill […]
Wednesday, September 23, 2020 | news
Today, a grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky, indicted only one of the three police officers involved in the killing of Breonna Taylor more than six months ago. None of the officers were charged for killing Taylor. Only one officer, former Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officer Brett Hankison, was charged with three counts of wanton […]
Monday, June 29, 2015 | news
For years, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) has joined the families of victims in calls for accountability in investigations of deaths in police custody. Tuesday’s announcement of a tentative framework designating Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as an interim special prosecutor for such cases is a milestone and a step in the right direction. […]
