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Earl Warren Scholarship

The application period for the 2024-2025 Earl Warren Scholarship is now closed.  The Earl Warren Scholarship is named for the Honorable Earl Warren, the 14th Chief Justice of the United States and former Governor of California whose stewardship of the Warren Court helped end school segregation and transform America’s legal landscape. In honor of his […]

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DynaLantic Corp v. United States Department of Defense

On January 19, 2005, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief supporting the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Section 8(a) program. The program is an educational and training initiative designed to support and increase business opportunities for economically and socially disadvantaged small businesses, as well as the U.S. Department of […]

Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., was originally filed in 2001 on behalf of a class of an estimated 1.5 million women affected by Wal-Mart’s discriminatory employment practices, making it one of the largest civil rights class action lawsuits in history. The women assert that pay and promotion policies at Wal-Mart systematically disadvantage female employees. For […]

Duane Buck Prosecutor Urges Clemency

A lawyer who worked on the Harris County District Attorney’s prosecution team that sent Duane Edward Buck to death row is calling on state officials to halt the execution scheduled for Thursday and allow for a new sentencing trial in the case. Read the full article in The Texas Tribune.

Duane Buck Files for New Hearing Free of Racial Bias

Mr. Buck’s death sentence is an unconstitutional product of racial discrimination. Mr. Buck has filed an appeal in the Texas courts asking for a new, fair sentencing hearing free of racial bias.

Duane Buck Death Penalty Case Argued Before the Supreme Court

Today, Christina Swarns, Director of Litigation for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), appeared before the Supreme Court, giving a powerful argument in Buck v. Davis, a case involving the racially-charged death sentence of Duane Buck. In order to impose a death sentence in Texas, a jury must be convinced that the defendant […]

Dream Defenders v. Desantis: Challenging Florida’s Anti-Protest Law:

Florida’s response to the millions of people who took to streets to demand police accountability was to pass a law that criminalizes protest, and gives police greater authority to make arrests and use violence against demonstrators. H.B 1 is designed to chill Floridian’s first amendment rights to free speech and peaceful assembly.  By criminalizing our […]

Dream Defenders Stand Their Ground for Trayvon’s Law in Florida

Damon Hewitt, Director of the Education Practice Group at LDF, met with and delivered testimony to the Dream Defenders yesterday during the sixteenth day of their sit-in at the Florida Governor’s office. Inspired by sit-ins during the Civil Rights Movement, dozens of college aged and young people have been living in Gov. Rick Scott’s office, […]

Drawing a Red Line on Brown v. Board of Education

By Cristian A. Farias, Former Writer-in-Residence at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund When the Supreme Court decided the seminal Brown v. Board of Education, the justices made it plain that the “original meaning” of the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection had little bearing on their decision to end school segregation once and […]