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 ...

LDF Files Emergency Amicus Brief Supporting a Motion to Stay the Federal Execution of Orlando Cordia Hall

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Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit supporting a motion to stay the federal execution of Orlando Cordia ...

LDF Urges Mississippi Governor to Reinstitute a Statewide Moratorium on Evictions and Foreclosures

Read the full letter here Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) wrote a letter urging Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves to re-institute a statewide moratorium on evictions and foreclosures on behalf of ...

LDF Opposes the Nomination of Kathryn Mizelle to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter urging the Senate to oppose the nomination of Kathryn Mizelle to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. ...

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