ATLANTA — A federal appeals court hearing in a case that may enable hundreds of thousands of Floridians to register to vote in time for the November election concluded today after two hours of oral argument. The ...
Following a three-day virtual preliminary injunction hearing the week of July 19, late last night a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas granted a request made by the NAACP ...
Last week, a coalition of national civil rights organizations, including the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (LCCRUL), LatinoJustice PRLDEF (LJP), and Law For Black Lives ...
Today, the North Carolina Supreme Court issued a decision in State v. Robinson, ruling that Marcus Robinson, a Black man sentenced to death in 1994, must have his life sentence reinstated. Mr. Robinson, along with three other individuals, ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) released Community Oversight of Police Union Contracts, a comprehensive toolkit to support police accountability advocates and activists in engaging in police union contract discussions. The ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed a petition for rehearing en banc in its lawsuit challenging Alabama’s racially discriminatory photo ID law. In a split decision last month, a panel ...