LDF Issues Letter Requesting Financial Technology Firm Upstart Cooperate with Requests for Information by U.S. Senate Regarding Potential Discrimination Against HBCU Graduates

Today the NAACP Legal Defense Fund issued a letter requesting financial technology firm Upstart cooperate with requests for information by US Senate regarding potential discrimination against Historically Black College and University graduates in the firm’s ...

LDF Files Amicus Brief Supporting the Right of Juvenile Life Without Parole Offenders to Have a Meaningful Opportunity to Achieve Release

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Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in Brown v. Preycthe. The brief urges the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the district court’s ruling that Missouri’s ...

Federal Appeals Court Blocks Florida Law That Undermines Voting Rights Restoration

Read a PDF of our statement here.  A federal appeals court upheld a ruling blocking a Florida law that created wealth-based hurdles to voting and significantly curtailed Florida’s Voting Restoration Amendment, also known as Amendment ...

LDF Supports Taxi and Limousine Commission’s Campaign to End Taxi and Ridesharing Discrimination

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This week, New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission’s (TLC or the Commission) Office of Inclusion launched a public education campaign to spread awareness about the persistent discrimination that many New Yorkers of color experience ...

LDF Comments on Baltimore Police Department’s Community Policing Plan

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to Baltimore Consent Decree monitor Kenneth Thompson to provide comments on the Baltimore Police Department’s (BPD) draft Community Policing Plan (the Plan). ...

LDF Statement on the Outcome of Today’s Senate Judicial Vote to confirm Andrew Brasher to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the Senate’s Continued Stalling on Critical Bills

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Today, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Andrew Brasher to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) opposed Mr. Brasher’s nomination because of ...

LDF Submits Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court to Reaffirm Constitutional Protections for Citizens Shot by Police Officers

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Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted an amicus brief in Torres v. Madrid, a Supreme Court case that will determine whether the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable seizures applies to ...

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