Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined a coalition of 11 local organizations and the former mayor of Tarpon Springs, Florida, David O. Archie, in a letter to the Pinellas County ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and pro bono co-counsel Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP (Akin Gump) filed an amended complaint adding new facts to support claims of racial ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed a public records request with the Pasco County (FL) school district seeking records, pursuant to Florida Public Records Law, about the district’s involvement and ...
Today, President Joe Biden issued an Executive Order (EO) to promote voting access, including by directing federal agencies to expand access to voter registration and election information. Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF)’s Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI) released its executive summary of Democracy Defended, a forthcoming report that details critical findings from monitoring the 2020 election season in key states across the South. The executive ...
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued a decision in Vette v. Sanders, affirming the denial of qualified immunity and permitting Eric Tyler Vette’s civil rights claims to proceed. The NAACP ...
Today, the United States House of Representatives voted to pass the voting rights and election reform bill, H.R. 1 (the “For the People Act”). Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and ...