NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Student Borrower Protection Center Announce Fair Lending Testing Agreement with Upstart Network

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Agreement Marks New Standard for Fair Lending Oversight in Financial Technology Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) announced that they have entered into an ...

LDF Files Amicus Brief Supporting Rehearing En Banc in Lawsuit Challenging the Baltimore Police Department’s Aerial Surveillance Program

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Last week, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., (LDF)  filed an amicus brief supporting rehearing en banc in Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle v. Baltimore Police Department, a lawsuit challenging the department’s aerial ...

Voting Rights Advocates Urge Georgia Secretary of State to Remove Barriers to the Ballot Ahead of January Senate Runoffs

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ATLANTA — All Voting is Local Georgia, Campaign Legal Center (CLC), the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., and the Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund, today urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to ...

Federal Court Allows LDF’s Lawsuit Challenging Louisville’s Militaristic Response to Peaceful Protests to Continue

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Today, a Kentucky district court denied a motion to dismiss an ongoing lawsuit against the City of Louisville, Kentucky, for the Louisville Metro Police Department’s (LMPD) repeated use of military-type force and intimidation in response ...

LDF Releases Report on Grand Jury Proceedings Involving the Police Killing of Breonna Taylor, Calls for Special Prosecutor and New Grand Jury

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Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined calls for the appointment of a special prosecutor and new grand jury to examine the police killing of Breonna Taylor. Last month, a court ...

LDF Files Lawsuit Against President Trump and the Trump Campaign’s Attempts to Overturn the Election by Disenfranchising Black Voters in Michigan

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Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), a non-partisan civil and human rights organization, filed a complaint on behalf of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and three Detroit residents in a lawsuit ...

LDF Demands Independent Investigation Into the Death of Quawan “Bobby” Charles

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On November 3, 2020, 15 year-old Quawan “Bobby” Charles was found dead in a sugarcane field in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, four days after his family reported him missing. According to Quawan’s family and other local ...

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