The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed a brief in the Texas district court, contending that SB 14, the nation’s strictest photo ID law—which an appellate court already determined disproportionately and discriminatorily impacts Black and ...
On November 10, 2016, LDF filed an amicus brief in EEOC v. Catastrophe Management Solutions, in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. We were joined by the Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center and ...
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Overview of the Civil Rights Record of Reported Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions On November 18, 2016, President-Elect Donald Trump announced that Republican Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions will ...
LDF, alongside Earthjustice represents the Ashurst Bar/Smith Community Organization (ABSCO) in its Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 administrative complaint against the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM). The Title VI complaint ...
Statement of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill on the Nomination of Jeff Sessions to Be Attorney General “Jeff Sessions has a decades-long record – from his early days ...
Five years ago, Texas passed one of the strictest Voter ID laws in the country. The legal fight began immediately and has continued through this day, with critics of the law getting some assistance from ...