Friday, June 28, 2024 | case-issue
Braxton et al., v. Stokes et al. is a federal lawsuit in the United States District Court Southern District of Alabama, challenging racially discriminatory voting and electoral practices in Newbern, Alabama. LDF and co-counsel Quinn, Connor, Weaver, Davis, & Rouco LLP represent Patrick Braxton and other Black Newbern residents in the case. The plaintiffs claim that they […]
Tuesday, December 22, 2020 | case-issue
Bradford v. Maryland State Board of Education Challenging Chronic, Unconstitutional Underfunding in Baltimore City Schools Legal Defense Fund, ACLU of Maryland, and BakerHostetler represent a group of parents of students attending public schools in Baltimore City in Bradford v. Maryland State Board of Education. Filed in 1994, the lawsuit challenges the Maryland State Board of […]
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 | news
In the days and weeks leading up to last night’s horrifying execution of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma, there was much debate about the validity of the call for transparency in execution procedures. Some contended that allowing Oklahoma to rely on a new and experimental drug protocol, which relied on drugs whose source the State refused […]
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 | case-issue
In July 2019, LDF joined the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and 56 of the nation’s premier civil rights organizations as amici curiae in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, and two companion cases, to urge the Court to recognize that the workplace anti-discrimination protections in Title […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | board-of-directors
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
For many months after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck the City of New Orleans, residents struggled to return home. Displaced residents found themselves navigating a maze of obstacles: securing affordable housing in a safe neighborhood, obtaining gainful employment at a living wage and with reasonable benefits to care for a family. And then they were […]
Monday, November 16, 2015 | news
Boggs Media, LLC, and Paula Boggs Band are thrilled to announce their involvement with My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, which unites leaders across philanthropic, nonprofit, and private sectors to improve life outcomes of boys and men of color; as well as the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the country’s first and foremost civil rights firm. My Brother’s […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | page
Friday, March 7, 2014 | news
LDF Calls for Passage of Voting Rights Amendment Act and Another Vote on Civil Rights Nominee This weekend marks the 49th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the Selma to Montgomery, Alabama march that grew out of voter registration movements spearheaded by SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Lawyers from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, including President […]
Wednesday, August 18, 2021 | page
