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Elaine R. Jones Receives Trailblazer Award from Just The Beginning Foundation

LDF is pleased to announce that its former President and Director-Counsel, Elaine R. Jones, received the Trailblazer Award from the Just the Beginning Foundation (JTBF) on September 22, 2012 at its Gala Dinner in Chicago, Illinois.  JBTF is composed primarily of judges and lawyers who develop educational programs designed to interest students of color in […]

Elaine R. Jones

Elaine Jones

From 1993 to 2004, Elaine R. Jones served as the President and Director-Counsel of LDF. When Ms. Jones took the helm of the Legal Defense Fund in 1993, she became the first woman to head the organization. She brought with her vast experience as a litigator and civil rights activist, as well as a passion […]

Effort launched to commute more drug sentence

Vincent Southerland is interviewed in a MSNBC.com article on the DOJ’s welcome announcement this week that it will expand on President Obama’s efforts to commute more drug sentences. The Justice Department said Thursday that it will expand on President Obama’s move last month to commute the sentences of eight people serving long sentences for drug […]

EEOC v. Catastrophe Management Solutions

On November 10, 2016, LDF filed an amicus brief in EEOC v. Catastrophe Management Solutions, in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. We were joined by the Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center and Professors D. Wendy Greene and Angela Onwuachi-Willig LDF’s brief argues in support of a petition for rehearing en banc in […]

EEOC Finds Wet Seal Discriminated Against African-American Class Action Plaintiff

Corporate Officials Instructed Managers to Make Employment Decisions Based on Race (New York, NY)  The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued a Determination that Wet Seal, Inc., a national women’s clothing retailer, racially discriminated against a former store manager, Nicole Cogdell.  Cogdell is lead plaintiff in a pending national race discrimination class action against […]

EEOC Finds Wet Seal Discriminated Against African-American Class Action Plaintiff

Corporate Officials Instructed Managers to Make Employment Decisions Based on Race (New York, NY)  The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued a Determination that Wet Seal, Inc., a national women’s clothing retailer, racially discriminated against a former store manager, Nicole Cogdell.  Cogdell is lead plaintiff in a pending national race discrimination class action against […]

EEOC finds basis for racial discrimination at Wet Seal

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has found a basis for Nicole Cogdell’s claim that she was racially discriminated against at the clothing retailer Wet Seal’s King of Prussia store – the case now moves to federal court. Read the full article at Philly.com.

Edwards v. Vannoy

On July 23 2020, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case Edwards v. Vannoy, where the Court will consider whether to retroactively apply its ruling from last term in Ramos v. Louisiana that the Sixth Amendment requires a unanimous jury before a defendant can be convicted of a serious offense […]

Educators, Students, and Civil Rights Advocates Seek Preliminary Injunction in Lawsuit Challenging South Carolina’s Racially Discriminatory Censorship Law, Budget Proviso 1.79

Last night, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and Tyler Bailey of Bailey Law Firm, LLC filed a preliminary injunction on behalf of South Carolina educators, students, author Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, and the South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, asking a District Court in South Carolina to immediately halt the implementation of Budget Proviso 1.79, a censorship law, to […]