Monday, November 20, 2023 | news
On Nov. 13, 2023, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), ACLU of Maryland, and the law firm BakerHostetler filed an appellate brief in Bradford v. Maryland Board of Education on behalf of Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPSS) families, urging the state appeals court to reverse an earlier decision and remand the case for further proceedings. The […]
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 | news
On November 24, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Public Citizen, and the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights, along with 25 other organizations, filed a “friend of the court” brief in Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities (APSCU) v. Duncan, in support of a U.S. Department of Education rule—the […]
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 | news
NEW YORK, NY and WASHINGTON, DC – A group of civil and workers’ rights organizations have filed an amicus brief in Minnesota Telecom Alliance v. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), a case currently before the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals pertaining to a recent FCC rule aimed at ensuring equitable access to broadband services. In the […]
Friday, November 20, 2015 | news
On Thursday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the New York Law School Racial Justice Project (“the Racial Justice Project”) and two Detroit-based organizations—the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights at Wayne State University Law School (“the Keith Center”) and the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization (MWRO)—filed a “friend of the court” […]
Monday, March 24, 2025 | news
Philadelphia, PA – Today, a group of civil rights organizations filed an amicus (friend of the court) brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Sargent v. School District of Philadelphia. The brief defends the legality of changes to the admissions policies of Philadelphia’s criteria-based high schools that were designed to […]
Monday, June 10, 2024 | news
Last Thursday, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Southern Legal Counsel (SLC) filed an appeal on behalf of nonprofit civil rights organization the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Florida (CAIR-FL), which initiated several public records requests seeking information about Pasco County Sheriff’s Office’s predictive policing program that, without any notice to […]
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 | news
Last week, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC (Advancing Justice | AAJC), National Women’s Law Center, Office of Communications of the United Church of Christ, National Partnership for Women and Families, The Global Black Economic Forum, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the Southern Poverty Law Center filed […]
Thursday, November 17, 2022 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia (ACLU of Georgia) filed an amicus brief in the Georgia state court lawsuit challenging the Georgia Secretary of State Office’s “official election bulletin” to county election officials and registrars instructing them that they are prohibited from offering in-person early voting on Saturday, November 26 […]
Wednesday, October 26, 2022 | news
This Election Day—November 8, 2022—Connecticut voters have the power to make early voting possible in future elections. This question will be on the ballot: “Shall the Constitution of the State be amended to permit the General Assembly to provide for early voting?” The undersigned civil rights and racial justice organizations encourage eligible Connecticut voters to […]
Thursday, April 9, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), along with The Promise of Justice Initiative, Southern Center for Human Rights, Mississippi Center for Justice, SPLC Action Fund, Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center, Forward Justice, ACLU of South Carolina, and Arkansas Civil Liberties Union, issued a Demand for Immediate Action for Southern government […]
